#0179
NS 700
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1865· class of 86 Dutch 2-4-0 locomotives
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SS 13 Spoorwegmuseum: Niels Karsdorp, Dh3201· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. NS 700 - NS 729: 160541 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 3. NS 700 - NS 760: 162361 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 4. NS 700 - NS 773: 163288 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 5. NS 700 - NS 775: [13370], Spoorwegen in Beeld, Spoorwegmuseum· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The NS 700 was a series of steam locomotives of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) 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 161 years ago, in 1865.
- 13.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 68 years (1865–1933).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1865–1873
- in service from
- 1865
- retired
- 1933
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 81
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen, Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0
- length
- 13.6 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2093714, Wikipedia: NS 700 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.