The construction of these locomotives was related to the fact that increasingly heavier passenger trains on the connecting line Amsterdam W.P.

That is why this locomotive was built with relatively large driving wheels, with a diameter of 1,400 mm (4 ft 71/8 in).

They weren't really typical shunting locomotives either; The wheels were too large for this, but special coupler of train sets and thus these machines shuttled between the various Amsterdam stations.

The last five locomotives numbers: 8505, 8506, 8509, 8512 and 8514 were sold in 1952 to Ferrocarril de Langreo, the only standard gauge line in Spain.

There, the locomotives were somewhat converted and served for a few years on a mining railway from Gijon to Langreo in Asturias, after which they were scrapped.