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NMBS/SNCB is an autonomous government company, formed in 1926 as successor to the Belgian State Railways. From 1942 to 1944, amid Nazi Germany's occupation of Belgium, the company was paid 51 million Belgian francs by the Nazi Germany to send 28 trains carrying 25,843 Jews and Roma people to Auschwitz where only 1,195 survived. [ 2 ]
This is a list of NMBS/SNCB locomotive classes, classes of locomotive operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium: Multi-system electric locomotives [ edit ]
The Belgian State Railways Type 10, later known as the NMBS/SNCB Type 10, was a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives built between 1910 and 1914.. The class was used to work express trains operated by the Belgian State Railways and its successor, the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB), which was established in 1926.
They were painted dark blue with a yellow band low on the body. Unlike the other 1950s locomotives, Class 25.5's nose and side numbers plus their SNCB logos were in chrome rather than being painted on. The Class 25.5 was the first class on SNCB to be modified for push-pull operations followed by Class 25. In 1973 the last eight locomotives of ...
NMBS/SNCB Class 41 DMUs are diesel multiple-unit trains operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB). They are the standard train for Belgian internal workings which cannot be worked by EMUs. They work under the 25 kV electrification in the South of Belgium as well as on the non-electrified lines in the North.
NMBS/SNCB Class 26 are single voltage (3000 volts DC) locomotives that were designed as freight locomotives. They later started working on passenger trains as the electrification was expanded. A batch of five prototypes were delivered in 1964 as Type 126, numbered 126.001-126.005. 20 more were ordered around 1968, to be numbered 126.101-126.120.
Interior of NMBS/SNCB 08 Desiro ML at Antwerp Central Station. The exterior doors only open when the traveller presses the "open" button. These doors have a motion sensor that automatically closes them when no people are detected for more than five seconds. This is to promote the proper functioning of the climate control system.
The preserved Type 12 locomotive exhibited in Train World, Brussels, with a mock steam effect. The class was designed by engineer Raoul Notesse, based on the Canadian Pacific Railway's successful 4-4-4 "Jubilee" semi-streamlined locomotives of 1936/7, but also incorporated the ideas on streamlining of André Huet.