The narrow gauge steam locomotives of Palatine L 1 and Pts 3/3 N of the Palatinate Railway were procured for lines in the area of Ludwigshafen, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Speyer (the Neustadt-Speyer Lokalbahn or branch line).

Their sphere of operations was in Anterior Palatinate (Vorderpfalz) on the routes from Ludwigshafen to Dannstadt and to Grosskarlbach.

The last two engines were deployed on the Neustadt and Haardt railway to Geinsheim which opened in 1908.

There were three locomotives still in service after the Second World War in the French Zone of Occupation: Nos.

They had a fully glazed, box body and the drive was covered to reduce the risk to passers-by or horses.

In order to enable the engine driver to see the line there was a sliding side window.

The engines also had a Latowski steam-operated bell and, later, a steam turbo generator was fitted over the smokebox door outside the locomotive body to provide electric lighting.