#2605· Type 12
SNCB Type 12
🇧🇪 Belgium ·built by John Cockerill· from 1938· class of 6 Belgian 4-4-2 locomotives
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7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SNCB-NMBS Type 12 (DSC 0426): Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer)· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Brussel Noord stoom I: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Brussel Noord stoom II: Smiley.toerist· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Royal Train - Belgium 04: Carolus· CC BY 4.0
- 5. SNCB 12.004 (Namur): Manfred Kopka· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. SNCB 12004 1: MPW57· CC BY 3.0
- 7. SNCB tender type 19: Bernhard Rieger· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The NMBS/SNCB Type 12 was a class of 4-4-2 steam locomotives built in 1938–1939 for the fast lightweight Ostend boat trains operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium.
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 88 years ago, in 1938.
- Top speed is 1.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 1.9 MW is about 22 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 23 years (1939–1962).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1938–1939
- in service from
- 1939
- retired
- 1962
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- John Cockerill, John Cockerill & Cie.
- designer
- Raoul Notesse
- operators
- SNCB/NMBS
- top speed
- 165 km/h
- power
- 1.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-2
- weight
- 89 t
- Dutch name
- Type 12
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1860003, Wikipedia: SNCB Type 12 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.