DV11H and D11H at Da-Nang

[Richard Gennis]

Hi,
Please find attached two photos from Dâ nang which shows both DV11 and D11, i am interested to know what the 'V' stands for if any body can help me with this, i nơ its something to do with the older Merc 'engined types,
I hope you like the photos

Richard Gennis

[Moon]

Hi Mr Gennis!Firstly, thank you for your good question.
There are 3 locos that have original signboard "DV11H", include 336,351 and 354. But now, it's still only loco 351 has the signboard which letter "V" stands next to "D". The reason is that my mangager in Danang locomotive workshop in that period (about 1991 if i'm not mistaken) wanted to to remember the friendship between Germany and Vietnam and he replaced the signboard "D11H" by "DV11H". Letter "D" means "Đức"(Germany) and "V" means "Vietnam".
I hope this infomation will useful for you.

[Richard Gennis]

Moon,
Many thanks for your reply, althought i am slightly confused now as i thought that the 'D' prefix was for Diesel !!! so was there only three locos with the 'V' or did they all have the 'V' when they were first built new ??? and these locos were built in Romania not Gẻmany !!
I take it now there is only one loco and thats 351.
So if 351 gets a new MTU engine will it get a new sign board without the 'V' ??
Many thanks once again and sorry for so many questions

Richard Gennis

[Moon]

No problem Mr Gennis. I think i met u at Da Nang workshop in one noon when you were taking photos some loco D11H and i asked you about permission to taking photo at workshop.
Sorry, D11H is the original signboard but when the diesel engine of these loco (336,351,354) were failed and East Germany aided for Vietnam 3 new diesel engine istalled on 3 D11H locos. Letters "DV" is to remember this event and remember the friendship between Germany and Vietnam,"D" means "Đức" and V means "Vietnam" , in Vietnamese "Đức" means Germany and "D" is not for Diesel.
The other ones have signboard "D11H" normally and D means Diesel, the diesel engine is MTU engine. It is the same if "DV11H 351" has MTU engine it will have signboard "D11H 351".
But now, i'm not sure whether loco 336 and 354 have the Diesel engine of East Germany, because they have signboard "D11H".

[Richard Gennis]

Moon,
Many thanks for sorting this out for me, my only other question on this now is do you know the name of the East German engine unit or the number, how many cylinders, and how many horse power ? ?
Another question for you about Da-nang, on the other side of the line that runs to the station opersite the big workshop is a small wagon repair workshop with an old D4H painted red which i know has the truck engine ! ! it has D2M on the side, but i would like to know the original number ? can you ask at the workshops ?
I do remember us meeting at the workshop and i remember your very good English and you were very helpfull,
I look forward to seeing your reply

Richard Gennis

[sakuraluu]

To mr Richard Gennis. Next week I have a schelduce meeting with many leader of all Hanoi Depot's workshops (D19E workshop, D12E....). If you have any question about Hanoi Depot in Hanoi please post here or email here, thanks

[Richard Gennis]

Sakuraluu,
Many thanks for this offer, i would be pleased if you could get a locomotive list of all loco's that are working from Hanoi workshops and the Yen Vien workshops !!
The other thing that i would like is a list of all the D19E locomotives as from my list there has been different deliveries and some are slightly different in shape so if you can get any infomation on when each batch of locos were built, also have any of these been scraped or damaged in accidents ? also i remmber seeing D19E 960 in Siagon but how many more loco
are there in this class.
The same questions for the D19ER as i think there are only five of these in Vietnam ?
also with the D14E was the first locomotive D14E 2009 or did they start at 2010 and was there only four of these ever built ??
I hope that you can find these answers next week

Richard Gennis

[Moon]

Mr Gennis!Many thanks for your good comments, i'm getting some problem and i'm being in Hanoi. I very admire your deep knowledge and your attention about VN Railway. All i know about series D2M is there is 2 locos that named D2M, it was original D4H and have replaced the diesel engine and repainted. Now it has Kamaz engine and red painted. One is at Danang wagon repair workshop and the other one is at Thap Cham station. The one in Danang has one Kamaz engine and the other has two Kamaz engine for 2 direction. I will ask for the original number when i come back to Danang.

[Richard Gennis]

Moon,
Thank you for your quick reply, and i look forward to your information from Danang when you get back from Hanoi, if you can try to find out both the numbers of the D2M's that have the truck engines,
Also i have lots of information on the D11H, and would like to know how many locos were built for DSVN, i was told that there was 58 ?? but did the numbers run from 301 to 358 ?
Another question is what happens with all the locomotive that are no longer in service as when i was in Vietnam i did not see any locomotives that were in a poor condition or ready for scrapping at any of the workshops !

Richard Gennis

[danhbaduongsat]

D4H now they do not like to using because of lack of accessories to repair so they (VN Railways) give up them, some of Railways company do not have engine to repair it so they using truck engine instead of. So difficult to find the origin number because all of this kind of locos that using inside factory, company... so they do not need to registed this.