Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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NS no.3737 is the only Dutch 4-6-0 (or 2C if you like) preserved, at the Spoorwegmuseum (railway museum) in Utrecht. They were inspired by the Noord Brabantsch Duitsche Spoorweg's Class 2C, the first Dutch 4-6-0 ever. But it turns out, they were based on a design by John George Robinson of the Great Central Railway. The obvious question is: Which locomotives were the inspiration?


SOURCES AND CREDIT


Photograph of NBDS no.30 posed with NBDS staff at Gennep - 220400 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/477BB34ED5F35C369B3C05B43875DAFD, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87959028

Photograph of an NS 3500 running through a flood - By [SFA022813824 / Spaarnestad Photo - https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:SFA03:SFA022813824, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97256588

Photograph of NBDS no.32 posed with NBDS staff at Gennep - Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3704477

Photograph of NS no.3506 halted at Amsterdam Centraal Station - 165336 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/8BAC45A9DDC76EAAE0534701000A9069, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87854418

Photograph of NS steam loco lineup, a 5700, no.8605, no.3780 and no.3772 - 170072 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/6C7831DE71795878B934BA7FA2B28FB1, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86509993

Photograph of an NS 3500 with a passenger train passing through Amsterdam - 170009 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/1B6FCA735259502AB3C374B53CB8765A, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87959116

Photograph of NBDS no.31 - 151378 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/6DA677F3D7A5533FA02FAC64F7639662, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87854678

Photograph of J.G. Robinson - LNER Wiki

Photograph of SS no.713 - 151402 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/269911730438504F8D000D60247E319E, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86499162

Photograph of SS 71 at Utrecht - Public Domain, Utrechts Archief 165063 https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeldmateriaal/detail/a63412fb-4767-53df-8770-b0e2b316367a

Photograph of Great Central Railway Class 8 on a fish train - Internet Archive Book Images - flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14758719094/Source book page: archive.org/stream/waysofourrailway00grinrich/waysofourrailway00grinrich#page/n234/mode/1up, No restrictions, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43251195

Photograph of GCR Class 8C no.195 - https://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/catalog/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/r/101162/viewmode=infoview/qsr=GCR, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=141977628

Image of OO model of an LNER J11 (GCR Class 9J) - Bachmann UK

Photograph of GCR Class 1 no.423 'Sir Sam Fay' - https://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/catalog/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/r/101164/viewmode=infoview/qsr=London%20and%20North%20Eastern%20Railway%20, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=141904720

Photograph of an NS 3500 departing Amsterdam C.S. - 151284 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/24C5E7BDF4415B72A9A96CDE808EB8BB, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87854607



Literary sources:



'Treindesign', by Heleen Vieveen & Henk Sijsling, AHA Books

'Vervlogen Stoom' by Hand van Pol & Bert Steinkamp, Uitgeverij Uquilair



LINKS


Great Central Railway 9N for Train Simulator (payware) - caledoniaworks.com/product/gcr-class-9n


Discord server - discord.gg/PtekEPJ


Twitter - twitter.com/TeaWithCaramel1


Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty
(Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400051

Artist: incompetech.com )



Channel icon by Dean Walker - twitter.com/lookitstrainart



Thumbnail art by:
- twitter.com/RoseAffogato

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