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This strange machine must be a prime candidate for the title of "Ugliest Locomotive". It is not exactly obvious, but No 1452 was a cabforward design.

The rectangular water tanks are at the rear, on either side of the smokebox. The unusual boiler had a figure-of-8 section, the top cylinder being 0.7m in diameter and the bottom 1.05m.

In May 1880 the Minister of the Interior granted Belpaire a patent for "A light locomotive of special construction". It was built at the arsenal at Malines in the same year.

This was the last single-driver locomotive built for the Belgian State.

Wheel configuration: 1A1 (2-2-2)

Driver diam: 1.30 m

Safety valves: Ramsbottom.

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