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Built by Cockerill in 1875 under construction number 975 for the coal mines of les Charbonage Mariemont d Olive, later incorporated into La S.A. des Charbonnages de Mariemont-Bascoup. There she remained in service until 1910. She was returned to Cockerill. Later she was sold back to Société anonyme des Charbonnages de Patience et Beaujonc réunis who put her into service on 15 November 1912 at her mine in Glain near Liège. In 1970 the locomotive was taken out of service there. After that the locomotive went to Kinkempois for 150 years of Belgian railways. On 6 April 1993 the locomotive moved to station As and was taken over by the Limburgse Stoom Vereniging, the later Kolenspoor. There she was given the name Jojo. Derived from Marie-Jo, the wife of the chairman of LSV. A series member from the mine went to the station of Raeren, three others were scrapped. In 2005 the locomotive went to Baasrode. In 2010 the restoration of the locomotive was started. In 2014 the focus was shifted to the extensive repairs of tubize 2069. The restoration was resumed from 2020.
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