''De Arend'' (; ''the

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'') was one of the two first steam locomotives in the

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. It was a

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''Patentee'' type built in England by

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to run on the then standard Dutch

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of . On 20 September 1839, together with the ''Snelheid'' (Dutch for ''

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''), it hauled the first train of the

Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij The Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij () or HSM (''Hollands Iron Railway-Company'') was the first railway company in the Netherlands founded on 8 August 1837 as a private company, starting operation in 1839 with a line between Amsterdam ...

between

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and Haarlem. It was withdrawn in 1857. In 1939 a replica of the ''De Arend'' was constructed for the 100th anniversary of the Dutch railways. It is displayed at the

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(Dutch Railway Museum) in

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* * 2-2-2 locomotives Steam locomotives of the Netherlands Early steam locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1939 {{Navigation Dutch steam locomotives Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij

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