CEL - Lebanese Railways CEL - Chemin de Fer de l'Etat Libanais
Lebanese State Railways



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These pages give an informal overview of most of the remaining locomotives present in Lebanon.

The stations and yards at which the locomotive are loacated are:

Locomotive Lists

(From Hugh Hughes, Railways of the Middle East, Continental Railway Circle, 1981)

Tramway Libanais (1.05m gauge)

Numbers     Type    Class    Makers   Makers' Nos. Dates  Disposal

1-4          0-6-OT           StL      1013-16      1895   DHPTLI-4
5-6          0-6-01           StL      1017-18      1896   DHPTL5-6
7-8          0-6-UT           StL      1019-20      1896   Hijaz 19-20 (?)

DHP (1.05m gauge) (Excluding Hijaz locomotives)

1            0-6-2T    B      SLM      841          1893   (a)
2            0-6-2T    B      SLM      842          1893   Replaced 1904
3-5          0-6-21    B      SLM      843-45       1894   CFS 031.803-5
6-8          0-6-21    B      SLM      846-48       1894   CEL 6-8
9-11         0-6-2T    B      SLM      985-87       1896   CEL 10(a)
2,12         0-6-2T    B      SLM      1585-86      1904   CEL 2,12
31-35        0-8-2T    A      SLM      1741-45      1906   CEL 31-35
36-37        0-8-2T    A      SLM      1744-75      1906   CEL 36-37
51           2-6-OT    D      SLM      849          1894   CFS 130.755 (b)
52           2-6-0T    D      SLM      850          1894   (a)
53-56        2-6-0T    D      SLM      851-54       1894   CFS 130.751-4
61-62        0-4-4-2T  C      Hartm    3000-01      1906   CFS 02021.961-62
101-08 (c)   0-6-01    E      Tub      872-79       1893   CEL 103/4/7/8 (a) (d)
201-03       0-4-OD           Moyse                 1936   CEL 201-03
301-02       0-10-OT   S      SLM      2966-67      1924   CEL 301-02
303-05       0-10-UT   S      SLM      3123-25      1926   CEL 303-05
306-07       0-10-01   S      SLM      3721/20      1940   CEL 306-07

DHP (Standard gauge)

1-6          0-6-0     H      WN       443742       1902   CEL 1-3, 5-6
21-35        0-8-0     G      Cail     2735-49      1906   CEL 21-35
51-53        2-8-0     K      Maff     3199-201     1910   CFS 140.351-3
54-55        2-8-0     K      KrM      15676-77     1938   CFS 140.354-5
58-59 (e)    0-6-0            Essl     2365, 2490   1890/1 CFS 030.158-9
618-20 (e)   2-6-0            Bors     8383-85      1912   CFS 130.218-20
(two) (e)    0-10-0   (G10)   Bors     8569,?       1913   CFS 050.501-2
801-48       0-8-0    (G8)    (see Appendix "E")           (f)
73685-88(g)  2-10-0   (WD)    NB       25471-74     1944   CFS 150.685-8

Diesels (Standard gauge)

CEL 601-04   0-6-0    (GM6)   EMD      25462-65     1960   (600HP)
CFS 301-15   Co-Co    (U17C)  GE       40664-78     1976   (1700HP)
CFS 351-65   Co-Co    (U17C)  GE       40679-93     1976   (17001-IP)

Syria also has a large number of diesel locomotives built in Russia
and France; full details are not yet available.

(a) Nos. 1, 9, 11,52,101/2/5/6 had all been withdrawn by 1925.
(b) Now carries plates giving SLM 855.
(c) Ordered for Hauran line (CF en Syrie).
(d) 107/8 were named MZERIB, HERMON.
(e) CFOA locomotives (Baghdad Railway).
(f) 10 to CE L 101-10; 25 to CFS 040.45175; rest probably to Turkey.
(g) War Department numbers.