In 1899, the NCS bought a tank engine from the Sächsische Machinenfabrik in Chemnitz for use on the local railway lines.

[1] Inspiration was taken from the 2.311 to 2.380 series of the French Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord.

42-45 were painted in the new ocher yellow livery introduced in 1901 with olive green bands with white and red piping.

42 and 48 were fitted with a smokebox superheater, after favorable results had been obtained with express locomotives Nos.

Other changes carried out by the NS involved the installation of a sandbox on the boiler around 1924 and the removal of the bell after 1938.

[3] The NS used these locomotives, among other routes, on the Haarlemmermeer lines, to replace the series 7700.

In 1955 the engine was scrapped in Veenendaal, after 55 years of service and 2.2 million kilometers traveled.