Talk:NS VIRM

{{subst:NS VIRM|NS DD-IRM}}, This should be moved as this is the actual name of the type.

VIRM or V-IRM is more actual than IRM.

Numbering?

I also asked this question on the discussion page of the Dutch Wikipedia: Going through the captions of the IRM-pictures on railfaneurope.net I found several unit numbers that seem to have been a long and a short consist, e.g. 9505 and 8705 can be found and also 9507 and 8707. Is this correct? Are consists often - or at all - changed from four to six-car or vice versa? And was it the same with the former three and four-car consists? I found e.g. 8215 and 8415 (and 8615) or 8208 and 8408 (and 8608). As I also found 8491 and 8493 (!), I'm not convinced all numbers indicated are really correct. Thanks for any comments.-- Gürbetaler (talk) 20:35, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Really sorry you had to wait for an answer this long. I saw your question here a few weeks ago and I wasn't sure of an answer back then, but yesterday I was traveling in NS trainset 9544 and looked it up at en.treinposities.nl. There I found the answer: this set was rebuilt from 8744. The carriages of a VIRM trainset are coupled with fully automatic railway couplings to make coupling and uncoupling easier. The last two digits of the number of a trainset are the same as the last two digits of the number of the ABv3/4 carriage. At times, for example during a renovation, these carriages are uncoupled and it can happen that an ABv3/4 that was part of a six-carriage set now becomes part of a four-carriage set or vice versa. I knew of course that this was possible but until yesterday I did not know if this really happened. I guess you can find the answer to your questions on the 86/8700 and 94/9500 series by changing '9544' in the link I gave you into your desired number. In some (or many) cases this also works for dismantled sets, see e.g. 8744 but not 9505 where you'll have to check 8705. However it won't work for the 8200 and 8400 series as they no longer exist. But knowing now what the current practice is, you can assume that is was the same when these trains were still operating as DD-IRM (three- and four-carriage sets).  Wikiklaas  11:28, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your answer. I admit that I had completely forgotten my question... but even more I'm very pleased to see confirmed what I had thought. And it was very, very friendly of you to put a message on my user page. Thank you very much again. --Gürbetaler (talk) 21:44, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Warning copyrightabuse

Dear members of Wikipedia,

The intro of this article and several others has been copied and used in the game Trainstation from Pixel Federation. It is in use on Facebook and the game is copyrighted bij the Pixel Federation. I don't know correctly if that is allowed, but I noticed it when I wanted to look up more information about other locomotives.

Your regards. Michael 1988 (from the Dutch Wikipedia). Michael V 1988 (talk) 22:30, 29 December 2011 (UTC)