KFNB - Austria and Moravia

The KFNB Austria and Moravia were the first two steam locomotives of the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn in Austria, a pair of 2-2-0 engines built by Robert Stephenson and Company and delivered in 1837. Their cylinders were arranged under the smokebox and drove the cranked second axle, and the boiler was covered with wooden strips. Austria led the opening train of the railway from Floridsdorf to Deutsch-Wagram, but both engines soon proved incapable of handling the growing traffic and were moved to the Stockerau line. After a serious accident at Versailles on 8 May 1842 led to a ban on two-axle locomotives in Austria, they were withdrawn, stored in 1846, struck off in 1849 and scrapped in 1849 or 1852.