#3024· 1200
NS Class 1200
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1951· locomotive class
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ACTS 1255: No machine-readable author provided. T Houdijk assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 2. 1251 Werkspoor Amsterdam Class 1200 at Amersfgoort 031019: kitmasterbloke· CC BY 2.0
- 3. NS Class 1600 No. 9901 NS Class 1200 Nr1251 and NS EMU at Amersfoort: kitmasterbloke· CC BY 2.0
- 4. NS 1200 ACTS 1255 at Blerick: Alex P. Kok· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. NS 1200 Class No. 1201: Willem van Valkenburg· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Class 1200 was a class of electric locomotives operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen in The Netherlands.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 75 years ago, in 1951.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 47 years (1951–1998).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1951–1953
- in service from
- 1951
- retired
- 1998
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Westinghouse Electric Company
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Husa Transportation Group
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 1.5 kV DC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 18.1 m
- weight
- 108 t
- Dutch name
- 1200
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1213792, Wikipedia: NS Class 1200 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.