BRAWA V15 – H0 Betriebsanleitung Seite 2

Operating Instructions
Diesel lokomotive V15 – H0
The locomotives of the V15 series were used in the entire region of
the Deutsche Reichsbahn , with a lot of smaller stations being able
to streamline their shunting service with them. The V15 was built
by the DR as the successor to the
Köf II and was developed by LKM Babelsberg from an industry
locomotive. A pilot run of 20 machines was built from 1959
according to a 1958 loc-design. These were followed by the 249
locs of the V15.20 series from 1960. The V23 series, which looked
externally to a large extent like the V15, was designed from this
with a more powerful engine from 1968 onwards. 81 machines
were built from this powerful 161 kW (220 HP) locomotive. Further
development of the V15 and V23 series led to the 102.1 in 1970
(Brawa model 0550).
The preseries locomotives of the V15 series had a 6-cylinder diesel
engine with 110 kW (150 HP) output and a wheel diameter of 900
mm.
In the standard design it was increased to 132 kW (180 HP), but
the name was not changed into V18. From 1970 onwards, the
locomotives of the V15 series were called 101, and those of the
V23 series 102. At the DB AG, from 1992 the former 101s were
classified as small locs of the 311 series, and the 102s became
312.0. Numerous locomotives from the V15 and V23 series were
also sent from the factory to industrial plants in the former GDR.
Many of the machines taken out of service by the DR and the DB
AG were also able to be sold to industrial plants or museum
railways, so that numerous locomotives of this series are still in
action even today.
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