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The Johannesburg site used to have a collection of approximately 90 steam engine locomotives, the largest museum of its kind in South Africa. The diverse collection of vehicles and artifacts cover photographs depicting the use of locomotives during the Boer War, to the last of the scheduled steam trains in 2007. The museum also coordinates ...
Download QR code; Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Steam locomotive tenders of South Africa" ... Z. South African type ZA tender;
The South African Railways (SAR) era began in 1910, upon the amalgamation of the three former Colonial railways, the CGR, NGR and Central South African Railways (CSAR). ). Since many tender types are interchangeable between different locomotive classes and types, most South African tender steam locomotives could be equipped with a variety of different tender types, with different coal and ...
The South African Railways Class GO 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1954 was an articulated steam locomotive. In 1954, the South African Railways placed 25 Class GO light branch line tank-and-tender Garratt articulated steam locomotives with a 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. It was the last new steam locomotive type to be acquired ...
The Class 15E 4-8-2 Mountain type mixed traffic steam locomotive was a refinement of the Classes 15C and 15CA.It was designed by A.G. Watson, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1929 to 1936, and incorporated many of the improvements which had been developed by him, some of which were a vastly enlarged standardised boiler, a large and wide fire grate and a ...
Delivered. 1893-1894. First run. 1893. Withdrawn. 1973. The South African Railways Class 6 4-6-0 of 1893 was a steam locomotive from the pre- Union era in the Cape of Good Hope . In 1893 and 1894, the Cape Government Railways placed forty 6th Class steam locomotives with a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement in service, twenty-two on its Western System and ...
1982. Disposition. 14 scrapped, 1 preserved. The South African Railways Class 14B 4-8-2 of 1915 was a steam locomotive. In 1915, the South African Railways placed fifteen Class 14B saturated steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 wheel arrangement in service. When they were subsequently converted to superheating, they were reclassified to Class 14.
1912. Withdrawn. 1976. The leading coupled axle had flangeless wheels. The South African Railways Class 3B 4-8-2 of 1912 was a steam locomotive. In 1912, the South African Railways took delivery of ten Class 3B steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain type wheel arrangement which had been ordered by the Natal Government Railways the year before.