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NS 4300
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1946· class of 237 Netherlands 2-8-0 locomotives (ex UK War Department Austerity 2-8-0)
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NS 4300 - NS 4310: 151359 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 2. NS 4300-NS4535: 159798 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 3. NS 4300 - NS 4312: 164759 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 4. NS 4300 - NS 4445: 160316 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 5. 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 4300 was a series of steam locomotives of the Dutch Railways (NS), taken over from the British War Department. These Austerity locomotives, with 1'D wheel arrangement, were built between 1943 and 1945 by North British Locomotive Company and the Vulcan Foundry for the British War Department to supply the British Army with supplies during their fight against the German army in the West of mainland Europe. Some of the British War Department were in service with NS after the war.
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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- 19.4 m long: about 4 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
- 1946
- retired
- 1958
- status
- retired
- number built
- 237
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- North British Locomotive Company, Vulcan Foundry
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0
- length
- 19.4 m
- nicknames
- Dokota, Small Jeeps
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q85311462, Wikipedia: NS 4300 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.