#0195
Nord 4.001 to 4.075 and 4.636 to 4.990
🇧🇪 Belgium ·built by Fives Group· from 1866· class of French 0-8-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 040-4.853 Nord: Didier Duforest· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
Nord 4.001 to 4.075 and 4.636 to 4.990, also called 180 unités, were 0-8-0 locomotives for freight traffic of the Chemins de Fer du Nord.
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 160 years ago, in 1866.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1866–1891
- in service from
- 1866
- number built
- 430
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- Fives Group, Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf, Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik, Société J. F Cail & Cie, Société de Construction des Batignolles, Schneider et Cie, Claparède et Cie, Anciens Établissements Cail
- operators
- Chemins de fer du Nord
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-8-0
- length
- 8.1 m
- weight
- 43.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q55595249, Wikipedia: Nord 4.001 to 4.075 and 4.636 to 4.990 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.