#1923
NS 3400
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Berliner Maschinenbau· from 1921· class of 20 Dutch 0-6-0 locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NS 3400 - NS 4313: 164542 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 2. Collectie het Utrechts Archief; 151366: Nederlandse Spoorwegen· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The NS 3400 was a series of goods steam locomotives of the Dutch Railways (NS), ordered by its predecessor the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij (HSM). Around 1920, the HSM ordered a goods version of the class 501-535 from the factory Berliner Maschinenbau (formerly Schwartzkopff) in Berlin, to be delivered as the class 821–840. Due to the merging of the fleet of the HSM and the SS in 1921, the locomotives were delivered with the NS numbers 4101–4120.
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 105 years ago, in 1921.
- 16.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 32 years (1921–1953).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1921
- in service from
- 1921
- retired
- 1953
- status
- retired
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- Berliner Maschinenbau
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij
- top speed
- 75 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 16.9 m
- nicknames
- Wilde Varkens (Wild Pigs)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17048010, Wikipedia: NS 3400 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.