#2801
NS Class 8800
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited· from 1945· class of 27 Netherlands 0-6-0ST locomotives (ex UK War Department Austerities)
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NS 8811 Simpelveld 1: Jasper K· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. NS 8800 - NS 3700 - NS 4300: https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:SPOOR01:KB-TOTAAL-13062· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The NS 8800 is a series of tank engines of the Dutch railway NS for the shunting service. Of the approximately 324 British-built Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST saddle tank locomotives, many were used by the British War Department during their fight against the German army in mainland Western Europe. The NS bought 27 of them just after World War II. They had been built by the Hunslet Engine Company (12), WG Bagnall (3), Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns (RSH) (6), and Hudswell Clarke (6).
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 81 years ago, in 1945.
- 9.2 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
- 1945
- retired
- 1957
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 27
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited, W. G. Bagnall Ltd., Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, Hunslet Engine Company
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen, War Department
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 9.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q1969896, Wikipedia: NS Class 8800 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.