''Ateliers de construction de La Meuse'' (french: La société anonyme des Ateliers de construction de La Meuse) are a manufacturing and engineering company based in

Liège Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...

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. During the period from 1888 to 1958, La Meuse built 1350 steam locomotives some for Belgian State Railways (later

NMBS/SNCB french: Société nationale des chemins de fer belgesgerman: Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen , type = Statutory corporation , industry = Rail Transport , foundation = 1926 , founder = Government o ...

), and many more for industrial networks. Of these a substantial number survive worldwide. The company still exists today, focusing on boilermaking, mechanics and the assembly of large-scale machinery. They have facilities in Sclessin and

Seraing Seraing (; wa, Serè) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Boncelles, Jemeppe-sur-Meuse, Ougrée, and Seraing. With Liège, Herstal, Saint ...

History

The origins of the business date back to the 16th century. During

1835 Events January–March * January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. * January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. ...

Charles Marcellis, forge master, moved his business to

La Boverie La Boverie is a museum in the city of Liège in Belgium. It opened in May 2016. It is housed in the former Palais des beaux-arts de Liège The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Liège is a building at the centre of the Parc de la Boverie in the Belgian c ...

, Liège. The company was set up as Société Anonyme des Ateliers de la Meuse. In

1872 Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...

, the name was changed to Société Anonyme des Ateliers de construction de La Meuse. These new workshops were erected on the site they currently occupy between the

Meuse The Meuse ( , , , ; wa, Moûze ) or Maas ( , ; li, Maos or ) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a t ...

river and the Paris-Namur-Liége-Cologne rail line. Expansion followed so that they occupied an area of about ten hectares. The company produced heavy industrial equipment for mining and metallurgy. The first locomotives were built in

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for the

SNCV The National Company of Light Railways ( nl, Nationale Maatschappij Van Buurtspoorwegen, abbreviated as NMVB; french: Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Vicinaux, abbreviated as SNCV) was a state-owned transportation provider which comprised ...

, and La Meuse would be the last company to deliver a steam locomotive to

. In

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, there was produced a

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locomotive for an industrial user. They went on to eventually build over 800 locomotives for industrial users. Their customers were mostly Belgium, but also Italy,

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, Morocco, Congo, Romania, Turkey, Spain, Latin America and the Netherlands.

Locomotives

Belgian State Railways

* Type 8 * Type 9 *

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* Type 11 * Type 12 * Type 23 * Type 25 * Type 29 * Type 32/32S * Type 36 * Type 51

Deutsche Reichsbahn

DRB Class 50 The DRB Class 50Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn ...

Hellenic State Railways

SEK class Κγ SEK (''Sidirodromoi Ellinikou Kratous'', Hellenic State Railways) Class Κγ (or Class Kg; Kappa- gamma) is a class of 20 0-10-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no ...

Surviving Steam Locomotives

References

External Links

* Company websi

* Rail.l

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