The NS 3700 series was a series of express train steam locomotives with the 2'C axis layout of the Dutch Railways (NS) and its predecessor Society for the Operation of State Railways (SS).


Locomotive 3737, the original SS 731, built by Werkspoor in 1911, made its first test drive between Amsterdam and Utrecht on 28 August 1911. She was officially commissioned on September 11, 1911. Locomotive 3737 (from the Roosendaal depot) drove the last official NS steam train from Geldermalsen to Utrecht Maliebaan station on 7 January 1958 , where the Dutch Railway Museum was already located at that time. The 3737 locomotive was subsequently included in the museum's collection. ^[1]

In the 1970s, the NS 3737 was again made ready for use for special journeys. In the 1974 and '75 seasons, the locomotive was rented to the Tilburg-Turnhout Steam Train Foundation (SSTT), which operated a tourist train service on a section of the Tilburg - Turnhout Railway . At the 150th anniversary of Railways in the Netherlands in 1989the 3737 played an important role. In the years that followed, the locomotive, with the Railway Museum as its home base, was occasionally active on the rail network. In 1996 she received a completely new boiler with a new firebox. The intention was to use the locomotive on a regular basis, but it became defective after a few journeys. When a proper repair was needed in 2008, the Railway Museum announced that it wanted to use part of a subsidy received from the BankGiro Loterij for this, but at the end of 2008 the amount turned out to be insufficient.

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https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_3700