#2800
NS 4000
🇸🇪 Sweden ·built by Nydqvist och Holm AB· from 1945· class of 15 Dutch 4-6-0 locomotives
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NS 002 Schiedam: Brooksbank· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. NS 4000 - NS 4006: digitaltmuseum.se 021018181236· CC0
- 3. NS 4000 - Amsterdam C.S: 151467 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 4. NS 4000 - NS 4001: Collectie / Archief Fotocollectie Anefo Auteursrechthebbende Nationaal Archief, CC0· CC0
- 5. NS 4000 - NS 4001 -: 832987 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 6. NS 4000 - NS 4002: 166398 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 7. NS 4000 - NS 4004: 151456 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 8. NS 4000 - NS 4005: 160311 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 9. NS 4000 - NS 4011: 155252 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
- 10. NS 4000 - NS 4011 - Utrecht: 160450 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief· CC0
what is it?
The NS 4000 was a series of express steam locomotives of the Dutch Railways from 1945 to 1956.
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.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 20.8 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 11 years (1945–1956).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1945–1946
- in service from
- 1945
- retired
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- builders
- Nydqvist och Holm AB
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
- length
- 20.8 m
- nicknames
- Kerstoom (Christmas tree)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2064900, Wikipedia: NS 4000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.