Efteling Steamtrack Line
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The 'Efteling Track Line' has 3 operational steam locomotives:
  • Aagje (1911): The first train bought, 'Aagje' an Orenstein & Koppel, was, at that time, still in operation at the IJsseloord Brickworks
    Brickworks
    A brickworks also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock often with a quarry for clay on site....

     in Arnhem
    Arnhem
    Arnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St. Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development. Arnhem has 146,095 residents as one of the...

    . Aagje started her ‘fairy duty’ in 1969.
  • Moortje (1908): After hard labor in a Belgian coalmine she became operational in the Efteling in 1974
  • Neefje (1914): operational in the Efteling in 1979- retired 2001
  • Trijntje (1992): operational in the Efteling in 1992. She is 3.90 metres long and 1.53 metres broad. She weighs about 7,000 kilos and her colour is 'Anton Pieck Red'.


Nowadays there are only platforms at the Adventure and Fairy realms, plus 1 station for the fairy characters to board.
Ride length: since 1984 3 km, covering the inner part of the park in a circle.

Each locomotive pulls six carriages which were designed by Anton Pieck
Anton Pieck
Anton Franciscus Pieck , a Dutch painter, artist and graphic artist...

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