#0431
Belgian State Railways Type 5
🇧🇪 Belgium ·built by Société anonyme Saint-Léonard à Liège· from 1880· class of Belgian 2-4-0T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Locomotive-tender 2-2 type 5 no 1218 de l'État belge: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The Belgian State Railways Type 5 was a class of 2-4-0T steam locomotives for local passenger service, introduced in 1880.
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 146 years ago, in 1880.
- Weighs about as much as 5 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
- 1880–1881
- in service from
- 1880
- number built
- 35
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- builders
- Société anonyme Saint-Léonard à Liège, Société Franco-Belge
- operators
- Belgian State Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0
- weight
- 31.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q105694660, Wikipedia: Belgian State Railways Type 5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.