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| NS 4500 | |
|---|---|
| by Supersnel11 | |
| Price | Free for Alpha Players |
| Statistics | |
| Type | Mixed |
| Top Speed | 65 km/h |
| Weight | 106 tons |
| Capacity | 280 tons |
| Passenger Capacity | 1 first class 2 second class |
| Length | 19,7 meters |
The NS 4500 was a class of four Dutch 1'D (2-8-0) goods locomotives. They were the first tender goods locomotives with four driven axles of the Netherlands.
Liveries
The NS 4500 is available in Nederlandsche Spoorwegen green. Those who played Streamlined in its Alpha stage also have access to the NBDS blue livery.
Historical details
NBDS 118-120
The Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NBDS) was a company that operated a line between the Dutch province Noord-Brabant and Germany. Due to an increase in goods traffic, they decided to order four locomotives from Hohenzollern in 1914. They were to be numbered NBDS 118-120, as a continuation of their other goods series 12-17 (later NS 3000), with 100 added because of their size difference. The outbreak of the First World War in 1915 pushed back the delivery of these locomotives considerably. The first, 118, was delivered in 1917 and the second a year later, both in NBDS blue.
SS 1301-1304
In 1919, the NBDS would be taken over by the Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van de Staatsspoorwegen (SS) and 118 & 119 were renumbered to SS 1301 and 1302. The other two locomotives would not be delivered until 1920, where they arrived as SS 1303 & 1304, but ironically were ordered as NBDS 120 and 119 respectively.
NS 4501-4504
After the fusion between the HSM and the SS, the SS 1301-1304 were renumbered to the NS 4500 series. They stayed in Noord-Brabant, stationed at Eindhoven depot from 1921 to 1923. They moved across various depots between 1924 and 1931 until they were stationed at Venlo depot. Due to the relentless running of the locomotives, their top speed was reduced to 50km/h in 1930 to reduce wear.
During the Second World War, all four were rented out to the German railway for only ƒ18 a day between 1942 and 1942, on the insistence of the German occupying forces. They were stationed at Gronau depot and only returned to the Netherlands for maintenance. NS 4501 and NS 4503 were found in the South of the country after it was liberated and were used for services in the provinces Noord-Brabant and Limburg. The 4502 and 4504 were found, damaged, in two different German depots in 1945.
NS 4251-4254
With the war ended, NS began rebuilding its collection of locomotives, which included a lot of austerity 1'D locomotives, originally numbered NS 4400. NS bought so many of these, however, that their numbers soon reached the 4300. The 4200 numbers were taken by 11 borrowed German locomotives, so the ex-NBDS machines were renumbered to the NS 4250 series and the 4300s also took the numbers in the 4500 range. The NS 4252 and 4254 were never used with these numbers. All four were withdrawn in 1947.
Technical details
The NS 4500 were originally equipped with Westinghouse-brakes, connections for steam heating on the front and back of the tender, a Knorr pre-heater with a heating surface of 13,6 m² and a pump with a capacity of 120 litres a minute (only SS 1303 & 1304), the firebox was secured with two Ramsbottom-mechanisms, two injectors and a double walled smokestack.
The driving mechanisms of the locomotives (cylinders, leading axle drawbar, valve gear, etc.) were the same as those of the SS 1101-1140 but the boiler was significantly bigger.
The SS swapped their smokestacks for the standard model, recognisable by its thinner appearance. They also equipped ex-NBDS 118 and 119 with the pre-heater; the other two were already fitted with it on delivery.
NS swapped the original 4-axle tenders of the series with those of the NS 3503-3506, which got the gas lighting of 4501-4504 in return. They were also given air-powered bells so they could pull trains on branchlines and the air pump was replaced with a standardised compound air pump.
Around 1925, a railing was added to the back of the cab so the stoking equipment would not come into contact with the overhead wires.
Trivia
- The locomotives can have a four-axle tender or a three-axle tender, depending on which company's livery is selected.
- Subsequently, at an extreme circumstance, the NS version with the three-axle tender is better to use, due to it being shorter.
- When the NS livery was introduced, it had a numberplate for the 4250 series, but after a model rebuild, the plate was removed, in favour of a 'chalked on' appearance due to no plate being made for the locomotives.
- Originally, the model featured an inaccurate blue, which was rectified in version 0.8.5.
- The NS 4500 was originally called NBDS 118, until the introduction of the NS livery, where it would use the more current period correct name.
- The name NS 4250 is not used, despite being used on the model.
- The engine has been available for alpha players since version 0.1.
- The NS livery was added in version 0.4.4.
Gallery
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NS 4500 at Voorlem
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NS 4500 in NBDS Blue, at Voorlem
