NSB El 17

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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  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 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

[edit] External links

• The Wikimedia Commons has media related to NSB El 17.
• Jernbane.net article on the El 17 (in Norwegian)

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