#0236
Belgian State Railways Type 20
🇧🇪 Belgium ·built by John Cockerill & Cie.· from 1870· class of Belgian 0-8-0T locomotives
what is it?
The Belgian State Railways Type 20 was a class of 0-8-0T steam locomotives, introduced in 1870.
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 156 years ago, in 1870.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10 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
- 1870–1880
- number built
- 55
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- John Cockerill & Cie., Société Anonyme la Métallurgique, Société des hauts-fourneaux, usines et charbonnages de Marcinelle et Couillet
- operators
- Belgian State Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-8-0
- length
- 10 m
- weight
- 50.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q105711776, Wikipedia: Belgian State Railways Type 20 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.