NSB 2-8-2 Locomotives in Norway

Class Class 34a (Locobase 6177)

Data from DeGolyer, Volume 60, pp. 43+. Svein Sando's Railway Site [] (9 June 2004)--(Later link: The Semaphore, accessed for link update 10 July 2022.)--and the Jernbane (Iron Road) site [] (originally June 2004, last accessed 30 January 2010). Works numbers were 45839-45840 in June 1917 and 45873, 45942 in July.

This quartet of Mikado tanks represent the only locomotives with a 2-8-2 arrangement to run in Norwegian service. If Locobase properly teases out meaning from the Norse comments in the Jernbane listing, these were essentially repeats of the Type 32 Prairie tanks with smaller drivers on very nearly the same wheelbase. Although there seem to have been some clear advantages to this variation -- greater power, more weight on the drivers -- the boiler is quite small in relation to the larger cylinders. This may be the reason more Type 34s were not procured.

345 was built with the others, but delivered to Norsk Hydro Electric Nitrogen Co.

They operated on the Gjobikbanen out of Oslo until retirement with 328 being the last to be withdrawn on 23 August 1958.