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NSB Class 12
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Dübs and Company· from 1891· class of 3 Norwegian 2-6-2T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Type 12a Nr. 67 Fabrikfoto 1891: uploader user:mef.ellingen· Public domain
what is it?
The NSB Type 12a, NSB Type 12b and NSB Type 12c were three steam locomotives built between 1891 and 1898 by Sächsische Maschinenfabrik and Dübs and Company for use on various railway lines in Norway. They were tank engines, which were useful so they wouldn't have to be turned around.
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 135 years ago, in 1891.
- 11.2 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1891–1898
- retired
- 1953
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Dübs and Company, Sächsische Maschinenfabrik
- operators
- Norges Statsbaner
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2T
- length
- 11.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q15343399, Wikipedia: NSB Class 12 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.