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NS 1600
🇳🇱 Netherlands ·built by Sharp, Stewart and Company· from 1889· class of 59 Netherlands 4-4-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NRS 107 Spoorwegmuseum: Niels Karsdorp, Dh3201· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The NS 1600 was a series of steam engines of the Dutch national railways, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), and its predecessors Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen (SS), Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij (HSM) and Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij (NRS). Two locomotives of this series were involved in the train disaster at Twello (The Netherlands) in 1900.
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 137 years ago, in 1889.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 60 years (1889–1949).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1889–1903
- in service from
- 1889
- retired
- 1949
- status
- retired
- number built
- 59
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- builders
- Sharp, Stewart and Company, North British Locomotive Company
- operators
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen, Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij, Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
- weight
- 48 t
- nicknames
- Rhijnbogen
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2430108, Wikipedia: NS 1600 (steam locomotive) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.