NS 3500

what is it?

The NS 3500 was a series of express train steam locomotives of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) and its predecessors Noord-Brabantsch-Deutsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NBDS) and Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen (SS). In 1907, the NBDS was the first railway company in the Netherlands to order express train locomotives with the wheel arrangement 2'C, which were delivered in 1908 by Beyer, Peacock & Company of Manchester, England and were put into service with the numbers 30–35. The larger companies Nederlandsche Centraal-Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NCS) and SS only introduced such express train locomotives two years later, the NCS 71–78, later NS 3600 and SS 700, later NS 3700.

who runs it

NBNoord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-MaatschappijMTMaatschappij tot Exploitatie van StaatsspoorwegenNederlandse Spoorwegen

base stats

• speed 100 km/htop speed
• built 8made in total

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 118 years ago, in 1908.
• 📏17.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
• ⌛Served for 38 years (1908–1946).

steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.

spec sheet

built

1908–1920

in service from

1908

retired

1946

status

retired

number built

8

kind

Steam

traction

steam

origin

🇳🇱 Netherlands

builders

Beyer, Peacock and Company, Hohenzollern Locomotive Works

operators

Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij, Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen, Nederlandse Spoorwegen

top speed

100 km/h

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

4-6-0

length

17.9 m

nicknames

Grote Blauwen, Blauwe Brabanders

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.