Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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NS has a reputation of taking a good idea and making it worse. However, there was a moment in time where NS altered a winning formula and ended up with a success - if only for the wrong reasons! Locomotives called every derogatory name for an air-smoothed loco, we take a look at the Nederlandse Spoorwegen's first streamlined locomotive - the 3800-3805 series, better known as... Potvis?


SOURCES AND CREDIT

Photograph of 3724 on a freight train by Nederlandse Spoorwegen, fotograaf - Het Utrechts Archief - Catalogusnummer 159927, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91225851

Photograph of 3804 being presented outside Tilburg works by Polygoon, Nederlands Fotobureau - Het Utrechts Archief - Catalogusnummer 161151, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91778607

Photograph of 3804 hauling two carriages around Amersfoort - 160309 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief

Photograph of 3804 hauling a train away from Utrecht Centraal Station - 170022 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief

Photograph of 3804 stood outside Centrale Werkplaats Tilburg by Vereenigde Fotobureaux, N.V., fotograaf - Het Utrechts Archief - Catalogusnummer 155475, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91227848

Photograph of 3804 with her casing doors open by 806930 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/3B83E1AE1B675735B4373D81707D80CA, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86530207

Photograph of 3916 with a train of steel carriages by 160475 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/27574481C1F855DB8B3A2FF6E9F16AA2, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87526924

Photograph of a train of Mat '34 running out of Utrecht Centraal Station by Utrechts Archief - Collectie van het Utrechts Archief, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68449250

Photograph of "Der Fliegenden Hamburger" by Copyright 1936 by F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig - Der neue Brockhaus, Leipzig 1938, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31960714

Photograph of London & North Eastern Railway's 'Silver Jubilee' train outside King's Cross, London by Unknown author - The Scotsman, 28 September 1935, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62569252

Photograph of the metal casing under construction at Tilburg by 806930 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/3B83E1AE1B675735B4373D81707D80CA, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86530207

Study of 3804 by Utrechts Archief - Collectie van het Utrechts Archief, CC0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68449240

Study of 3804 (a droit) - 808573 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief


Literary sources:

'De Nederlandse Stoomlocomotieven' by R.C. Statius Muller & A.J. Veenendaal, published by Uitgeverij De Alk Bv

'Stroomlijn op het spoor' by Carel van Gestel, published by W Books



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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 )



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