David Element's Railway Web Page 43 - Belgian Electric Locomotives

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SNCB/NMBS Electric Locomotives

SNCB/NMBS Class 13 1356

SNCB/NMBS Class 21 2118

SNCB/NMBS Class 27 2726

SNCB/NMBS Class 28 2811 (E 186 203)

A selection of electric locomotives is shown passing through Brussels during a frozen December weekend in 2010. Push-pull locomotive-hauled trains would have commonly been seen on Belgian railways and there were several very similar BN/ACEC-manufactured locomotives including Classes 21 and 27. The Class 13 locomotives are of a modern and powerful mixed traffic design derived from the Alstom SNCF Class 36000 and they bear certain similarities to this and its predecessor the 'Sybic' Class 26000 shown elsewhere on these pages (the Luxembourg Class 3000 is essentially identical). The Germanic origins of the handsomely liveried and ubiquitous Angel Trains/Cobra Rail Cargo ATC 186 Bombardier second generation TRAXX Class 28 (hired by the SNCB/NMBS predominantly for B-Cargo freight haulage duties) are betrayed by its alternative classification and numbering (E 186 203). This multi-system locomotive carries four pantographs enabling operation in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium.

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