NSB El 17

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NSB El 17
NSB El 17
NSB El 17 2230 on Flåmsbana in the line's green livery
Power type Electric
Type of service Passenger
Builder Thyssen-Henschel Flag of Germany GER
Serial number H.32467-H.32472
H.32901-H.32906
Build date 1981-1987
Total production 12
UIC classification Bo'Bo'
AAR wheel arr. B-B
Gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8½ in)
Length 16.3 m (53 ft)
Total weight 64 t
Electric system(s) 15 kV 16⅔ Hz AC
Current Collection method(s) Pantograph
Traction motors 4 × NEBB BQg 3855
Top speed 150 km/h (93 mph)
Power output 3000 kW
Tractive effort 240 kN
Locomotive brakes  
Train brakes  
Career Norges Statsbaner
Class El 17
Number in class 12
Number(s) 2221-2232
Delivered See main Article
Disposition See main Article
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NSB El 17 in traditional NSB colors
NSB El 17 in traditional NSB colors

NSB El 17 is a class of electric locomotives which was built for Norges Statsbaner's express trains by Thyssen-Henschel with electrical components from Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri. Twelve locomotives were built in two batches, delivered in 1981 and 1987, and numbered 17 2221 to 17 2232. The first batch has been retired while the second batch now operates on Flåmsbana.

The El 17 was never particularly successful; the first batch were plagued with several problems making the locomotives unreliable, and for a time trains were hauled by two locos in case of failure. The locomotive was unlike most ordered by NSB a highly innovative locomotive not based on a foreign design and one of the first in the world to use three-phase (or asynchronous) motor. The engines where less powerful than the El 14 and El 16, with the intention they would not haul freight trains. At the same time as the El 17, the Di 4 diesel locomotive was delivered from Thyssen-Henschel, and the two share many components, including the pointed nose also used by the El 16. No prototype was delivered because NSB needed the locomotives immediately, and the first series was prone to many faults, with multiple rebuilding of the engines; in the end none of them where the same.

By 1987 most of the bugs where fixed, and another batch of six where delivered; the trains taking over all passenger hauling on the main railways Bergensbanen, Dovrebanen and Sørlandsbanen. Due to underpower El 16 was instead used on the steep Bergensbanen. By the 1990s retirement was in the process and after El 18 where delivered from 1996 the El 17 where moved to Gjøvikbanen and Vestfoldbanen. The first scrapping occurred in 1997, and soon the whole first batch was retired, or moved to shunting. From 1998 the second batch was moved to duty on Flåmsbana with a locomotive in each end of the train.[1][2]

[edit] Production Details

Fleet Number Works Number Delivery Date Notes[3]
17 2221 H.32467 15 March 1982 Scrapped from 2000.
17 2222 H.32468 15 March 1982 NSB ECS workings in Oslo[4]
17 2223 H.32469 24 September 1982 Claimed by Norsk Jernbanemuseum
17 2224 H.32470 12 May 1982 NSB ECS workings in Oslo[4]
17 2225 H.32471 23 August 1982 NSB ECS workings in Oslo[4]
17 2226 H.32472 30 August 1982 Scrapped 1997
17 2227 H.32901 18 June 1987 Flåmsbana
17 2228 H.32902 19 June 1987 Flåmsbana
17 2229 H.32903 7 July 1987 Flåmsbana
17 2230 H.32904 21 July 1987 Flåmsbana
17 2231 H.32905 4 September 1987 Flåmsbana
17 2232 H.32906 27 October 1987 Flåmsbana

[edit] References

  1. ^ Aspenberg, Nils Carl (2001). Elektrolok i Norge (in Norwegian). Oslo: Baneforlaget. ISBN 82-91448-42-6. 
  2. ^ Railfaneurope.net (2006-04-08). Flåm electric locomotives. Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
  3. ^ Norsk Jernbaneklubb. Database over Rullende Jernbanemateriell Brukt i Norge (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
  4. ^ a b c Railfaneurope.net (2007-11-30). NSB diesel and electric locomotives. Retrieved on 2008-02-18.

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