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NS 1300
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1880· class of 179 Dutch 2-4-0 locomotives
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SS 326 Amersfoort: Niels Karsdorp, Dh3201· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Spoorwegmuseum loc SS 326: Eriksw· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. NS 1300-1400 - NS 1443: 170077 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 4. NS 1300 - NS 1307: 151396 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 5. NS 1300 - NS 1316: 151397 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 6. NS 1300 - NS 1389: 170030 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 7. NS 1300 - NS 1479: 151386 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
what is it?
The NS 1300 was a series of steam locomotives of Nederlandse Spoorwegen and its predecessors Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen (SS) and Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NBDS).
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 146 years ago, in 1880.
- 15.4 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 60 years (1880–1940).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1880–1895
- in service from
- 1880
- retired
- 1940
- status
- retired
- number built
- 179
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0
- length
- 15.4 m
- nicknames
- Grote Groenen, Armen en Benen
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2183308, Wikipedia: NS 1300 (steam locomotive) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.