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The NMBS/SNCB Type 29 was a class of steam locomotives built between 1945 and 1946. The class was ordered and used to help revive the operations of the
National Railway Company of Belgium french: Société nationale des chemins de fer belgesgerman: Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen , type = Statutory corporation , industry = Rail Transport , foundation = 1926 , founder = Government o ...
(NMBS/SNCB) following
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
. The locomotives were built in Canada and the United States, and supplied to Belgium under the auspices of what later became known as the
Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion (equivalent of about $ in ) in economic re ...
. One member of the class, no. 29.013, has been preserved by the NMBS/SNCB for display at
Train World Train World is a railway museum in Brussels, Belgium, and the official museum of the National Railway Company of Belgium. It is situated in the preserved buildings of Schaarbeek railway station and in a new shed built to its north. Although sched ...
, the Belgian national railway museum at
Schaarbeek railway station Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the north-east of the centre of Brussels, the station mainly serves trains travelling between central Bruss ...
in north-central
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
.


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History of rail transport in Belgium Belgium was heavily involved in the early development of railway transport. Belgium was the second country in Europe, after Great Britain, to open a railway and produce locomotives. The first line, between the cities of Brussels and Mechelen ...
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List of SNCB/NMBS classes This is a list of NMBS/SNCB locomotive classes, classes of locomotive operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium: Multi-system electric locomotives Single-system electric locomotives Diesel locomotives The class 77 are used bot ...
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Rail transport in Belgium Belgium has an extensive rail network. It is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Belgium is 88. History On May 5, 1835, the first railway in continental Europe opened between Brussels-Groendreef/All ...
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