#2837· NS 5000 (WD)
NS 5000
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1946· class of 103 Netherlands 2-10-0 locomotives
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NS 5020: 151460 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 2. WD Austerity 2-10-0 Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum: Maurits90· CC0
- 3. NS 5000: 160319 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 4. NS 5000 - WD 73711: 160901 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
what is it?
The NS 5000 was a series of steam locomotives of the Dutch Railways (NS), taken over from the British War Department. The locomotives, with wheel arrangement 1′E (2-10-0), were built between 1943 and 1945 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow for the British War Department to transport goods to the British Army during the war against Nazi Germany in mainland Western Europe. Their low axle load of 13.7 tons made them very suitable for running on makeshift or repaired railway lines.
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.
- 20.6 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 7 years (1945–1952).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1946
- in service from
- 1945
- retired
- 1952
- status
- retired
- number built
- 103
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- North British Locomotive Company
- designer
- Robert Riddles
- operators
- War Department, Nederlandse Spoorwegen
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-10-0
- length
- 20.6 m
- nicknames
- Big Jeeps
- Dutch name
- NS 5000 (WD)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q2278722, Wikipedia: NS 5000 (1946) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.