#2804· NMBS Type 26
SNCB Type 26
🇧🇪 Belgium ·built by John Cockerill· from 1945· DRB class 52 locomotives manufactured in Belgium 1945–1947
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 26101 Belgian class 26 kriegslok1: LHOON / Peter van den Bossche· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The NMBS/SNCB Type 26 was a class of 2-10-0 steam locomotives built between 1945 and 1947. Originally commissioned as part of an order for 200 DRB Class 52 Kriegslokomotiven placed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG) with Belgian locomotive manufacturers in 1943, the 100 members of the Type 26 class were completed for the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) following the liberation of Belgium late in 1944. Ten members of the class were quickly sold to Luxembourg to become Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) 5601 to 5610.
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.
- Weighs about as much as 13 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
- 1945–1947
- in service from
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 100
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- John Cockerill, Société Franco-Belge, Forges Usines et Fonderies Haine-Saint-Pierre, John Cockerill & Cie., Société Anonyme la Métallurgique
- operators
- SNCB/NMBS
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-10-0
- weight
- 79 t
- Dutch name
- NMBS Type 26
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q17099413, Wikipedia: SNCB Type 26 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.