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Series 3900 ('Grote Jumbo'): The NS 3900 series was a series of express train steam locomotives from the Dutch Railways. At the end of the 1920s, the Dutch Railways needed an express train locomotive that was stronger than the 3700 series, because more and more wooden passenger cars were replaced by steel.
Mechanically related to the class is the single-car DE-20, nicknamed The Camel (in Dutch: De Kameel), an inspection vehicle built in 1954, later rented out as an excursion train. The body shape of the units is derived from the NS Mat 46. [1] The DE-1 is 27.05m long and has two bogies, each powered by two electric motors.
The Dutch National Railway Company (Nederlandse Spoorwegen/NS) was founded in 1837 and tasked with building the Dutch railway network. [9] The first Dutch railway was built and opened in 1839 on a short stretch between Amsterdam and Haarlem, and was expanded between 1840 and 1847 to The Hague and Rotterdam. [10]
A Thalys train at Amsterdam Centraal A Fyra train in the Dutch countryside. High-speed rail service in the Netherlands started on 13 December 2009 with the dedicated HSL-Zuid line that connects the Randstad via Brussels to the European high-speed rail network. In later years improved traditional rail sections were added to the high-speed network.
Dutch railway services is an index page of all the rail services operated in the Netherlands. Railway services in the Netherlands are operated by the following (see also rail transport operators in the Netherlands ):
The prototypes were built in 1976, with full-scale production lasting from 1983 to 1994 by Talbot. The first train sets came into service in 1977. The first train sets came into service in 1977. The trains run daily on the Dutch rail network and, together with the VIRM , form the most important equipment on services connecting the Randstad with ...
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VIRM trains, full name Verlengd InterRegio Materieel (transl. Lengthened interregional rolling stock), are a series of electric multiple unit (EMU) double-deck trains operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen or NS (Dutch Railways), the principal railway operator in the Netherlands. NS has 178 of these double-deckers – 98 four-carriage sets, and 80 ...