The Railway Museum (Dutch: Het Spoorwegmuseum) in Utrecht is the Dutch National Railway Museum.
It was established in 1927 and since 1954 has been housed in the former Maliebaan station. The museum currently owns a large and varied collection of rolling stock.

Steam locomotive SS 13 of the type sneltreinlocomotief; serie NS 701 - 775; soortmerk P1; 1'Bn2-3T7, built in 1865 by Bayer Peacock & Co. Ltd Manchester (UK) for the Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen (SS). The loco was transferred to NS in 1921 as NS 705. It is now preserved at the Het Spoorwegmuseum / Railway Museum in Utecht Maliebaan former Station. July 15th, 2022.

A total of 75 machines of this type have served the State Railways. The first eight locomotives had 2-axle tenders when they were put into service, which were later replaced by 3-axle tenders, including those from the set aside series 5 - 8. The machines delivered after that were immediately given 3-axle tenders. The machines were at that time the most powerful and fastest locomotives of the railways in the Netherlands. In the 1880s, the series was equipped with the Westinghouse braking system. An engineer's house was also installed.
In 1919 the series was expanded with 5 locomotives that came from the Noord-Brabantsch - Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij.
After the influx of more modern locomotives, the locomotives were relegated to the freight or shunting service.

Locomotive 13 was shunted in 1932 at the age of 67 and stored in front of the Railway Museum. It is the oldest preserved steam locomotive in the Netherlands. She is (in 2013) 148 years old!
The tender comes from the SS 8, and was built in 1863. Locomotive SS 8 (of which the tender now belongs to the SS 13) was seriously damaged by a boiler explosion in Harlingen in 1868, after which the tender was moved to the SS 13. Incidentally, the tender still bears its original number SS 8 at the rear.

The SS 13 was heavily damaged by the retreating Germans at the end of the 2nd World War in Maastricht.
It was eventually repaired by the Hoofdwerkplaats in Tilburg and returned to its original condition, after which it was placed in the Railway Museum in 1951.
The locomotive is not operational, although it received a new boiler in 2000.

Photo by Guido Allieri (guido@allieri.com)