Between 1860 and 1867
Hartmann had supplied 24 locomotives to the Western State Railway and in 1865
Borsig delivered a further nine; all of which were transferred to the
Royal Saxon State Railways in 1869. In 1870 another eight locomotives by Hartmann went straight to the state railway. As 2-4-0 "fast-stopping train" (Eilzug) locomotives they were classified as B VI and H VI according to their manufacturer. In 1874
Schwartzkopff had delivered 14 2-4-0 express engines to the
Berlin-Dresden Railway. After the company had been nationalised in 1887 by
Prussia, the line and its running and rolling stock were divided in 1888 between Prussia and
Saxony. Six of these express locomotives were given to the K. Sächs. Sts. E. B. as Class Schw VI, the other eight went into the
Prussian state railways. The
Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company had also procured 6 express train locomotives in 1875 and another 6 in 1876 from
Henschel, which after nationalisation in 1876 were classified as Hsch VI or even Hl VI.
The first examples still had a
boiler with a rectangular dome by
Stephenson and a forked
frame. Later models (Schwartzkopff, Henschel) were built with a
Crampton boiler and full
plate frame. Because some of their technical details differed markedly from those of the Borsig and Hartmann batches (smaller
driving wheels, higher boiler pressure) they are given at several places in the table in brackets. All examples had horizontal, outside
cylinders. Two engines from the 1870 Hartmann batch were given a Nowotny
carrying axle in 1885, changing the
axle arrangement from 1B to 1'B and the classification to H VIb. The older Class VI models (in 1896 manufacturer's code letter(s) were dropped from the classification) were taken out of service about the start of the 20th century (by 1905); those from Schwartzkopff- and Henschel followed from 1910 onwards. Even though these machines had already become rarities in the 1920s, three examples were still included in the preliminary
Deutsche Reichsbahnrenumbering plan as 34 8001–8003; but the class was no longer represented by the time the final numbering scheme came out in 1925.