De Arend (locomotive)

De Arend (; "the eagle") was one of the two first steam locomotives in the Netherlands. It was a 2-2-2 "Patentee" type built in England by R. B. Longridge and Company of Bedlington, Northumberland to run on the then standard Dutch track gauge of . On 20 September 1839, together with the "Snelheid" (Dutch for "speed"), it hauled the first train of the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij between Amsterdam and Haarlem. It was withdrawn in 1857.
In 1939 a replica of the "De Arend" was constructed for the 100th anniversary of the Dutch railways. It is displayed at the Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum (Dutch Railway Museum) in Utrecht.