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.

Diesel-Electric loco NS 512 built in 1950 by Dick Kerr Woks, Preston UK preserved around the turntable at the Het Spoorwegmuseum / Railway Museum in Utecht Maliebaan former Station. July 15th, 2022.

These shunting locomotives belong to an English standard type, some of which came to mainland Europe with the Liberation Army in the service of the English War Department in 1944. The type made such an impression that in 1946 NS bought 10 units from the army dump (series NS 501 - 510). The Railway Museum has acquired the WD 70259 (NS 508) from this series. In 1949 and 1950 another 10 were added (NS 511 - 520). With their maximum speed of 32 km/h they were only suitable for shunting, but they could do a tremendous amount of work, especially on the large shunting yards.

In the eighties of the last century, due to reduced freight transport and later a completely different design of the freight service, they gradually became redundant and disappeared from the service. The Railway Museum then received locomotive 512.
Locomotive 512 stood on the quay of the Havenmuseum in Rotterdam for several years. It is now standing at the turntable of the Railway Museum, near Oosterstraat.

Photo by Guido Allieri (guido@allieri.com)