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The National Railway Company of Belgium (Dutch: Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen, NMBS; [a] French: Société nationale des chemins de fer belges, SNCB; [b] German: Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen) [c] is the national railway company of Belgium. The company formally styles itself using the Dutch and French ...
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.
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.
A lack of suitable locomotives following the electrification of Line 43 between Liege and Luxembourg resulted in the locomotives returning to service to haul "P" (Peak hour) trains. Final retirement from service was in 2004. Two units were preserved 1503 (preserved by SNCB/NMBS at Train World Schaerbeek), and 1504 (preserved by PFT).
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 ]
Several are now running on push-pull Benelux trains, alongside NS Class 186 (NS TRAXX F140 MS). These trains have a locomotive at each end; some trains feature a Class 186 at one end and a Class 28 at the other one. They also work on the heavy freight corridor between Aachen-West, Antwerp, and Zeebrugge.
No class 51s remain in service with NMBS/SNCB although a number have been preserved. [1] [page needed] 5117 PFT; 5120 CFV3V; 5128 PFT; 5149 PFT; 5166 SNCB, Schaarbeek Depot; 5183 PFT; Some remained active abroad: 5175 Seen in Sicily July 2017; 5132 Spotted in Sicily April 2018 [2]
It was the leading unit of a train formed of units 449 and 442. During recovery operations, the unit broke free from the train and ran away, killing two people and seriously injuring two more. After travelling for 14 kilometres (8.7 mi), it collided at Strépy-Bracquegnies with a passenger train operated by two Class 96s including unit 483 ...