Tubes

This picture came round in a newsletter I received. It was to illustrate the idea of boiler tubes.

Any idea which event / which engine this was?

 

A compound Meyer?
Pat

 

Boiler explosion of a narrow gauge steam locomotive of the Nesttun-Os Line in Norway.
The locomotive shown was of the Mallet type, built by La Metallurgique at Tubize in Belgium. They were given the names Bjørnen , Ulven and Os, so presumably it’s one of those three.

 

7th September 1920, Bjørnen (891/1893) at Nesttun station.

 

Looks like failure at the lap-seam.
Ray.

 

Thanks for the info guys, I thought it was a fascinating picture. Amazing that they all stand around it looking so happy. Presumably no one was on board when it happened.
The rocks behind the little loco also point to somewhere like Norway, it fits.
Lovely little machine, with its 4 cylinders.

 

These were posted on Facebook last week, but I can't find the originals, hence the lo-res ones here.

 

Armed with your info I found out a bit more here:
https://fr-fr.facebook.com/brunorails/

It was a 750mm line near Bergen, closed in 1935 but volunteers are laying some rails near one of the stations.
Despite several pictures, there is no mention of the accident, and all three locos are reported as withdrawn when the line closed in 1935, so they must have repaired the one in the picture (!)

 

Also this site about the railway:
http://www.osbanen.no/

which gives you an idea of how it was, even if in Norwegian.

 

There were no casualties in the accident.
A first replacement boiler was built by Motala Mekaniska Verkstad in Sweden. Then two additional new boiler were built in Norway.
And they were not to be long lived as the railway closed and the locos scrapped in 1935.

 

Well, that explains their happy faces
The Mallet looks suspiciously like the one in your Avatar....

Am I right in thinking they are looking to relay part of the line?

 

Here is a smaller version, so you can get an idea what it looks like in the non 'porcupine' state.

 

Not quite the same. My Avatar is our loco No. 5, Hamra. Built by Orenstein & Koppel in 1902, weight 15 tons, currently in service.
The locos at Osbanen were Decauville typ 8 locos, weight 12 tons.
We have also the world's only remaining loco of of this type loco Lessebo. Currently awaiting new tubes and other minor repairs.
https://www.oslj.nu/en-GB/rolling-stock/steam-engines-39017076

There is a small group cherishing the memory of the Osbanen:
https://www.osbanen.no/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesttun–Os_Line
They have a museum in form of an original station (Stend) with a few hundred metres of track and a few carriages and wagons.