Nord 2.311 to 2.380, were

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locomotives for suburban passenger traffic of the ''

Chemins de Fer du Nord The Chemins de fer du Nord''French locomotive built in 1846''

''. The machines were built in 1892–1893. They were nicknamed "

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" because of the entry into service of the series when the latter was arrested in April 1892.

History

The locomotives were put into service starting in 1892 to power services the Nord and Nord-Belge lines. They were numbered 2.311 to 2.380 by the Nord. The 70 locomotives were built by four companies:

Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques The Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (the Alsatian Corporation of Mechanical Engineering), or SACM, is an engineering company with its headquarters in Mulhouse, Alsace, which produced railway locomotives, textile and printing machi ...

Société Franco-Belge The Société Franco-Belge was a Franco-Belgian engineering firm that specialised in the construction of railway vehicles and their components and accessories. The company originated in 1859 as the Belgian firm Compagnie Belge pour la Constructio ...

Fives-Lille Fives-Lille was a French engineering company located at Fives, a suburb of Lille. It is now part of the Fives Group. History The company began as in 1861 and made a joint venture with the Société J. F. Cail & Cie. and were of Belgian orig ...

, and

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. At nationalisation on 1 January 1 1938, the survivors were renumbered 2-220.TA.1 to 2-220.TA.19 by the

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External links

* ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv
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