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It was founded in 1950 by Arthur Surtees manufacturing, repairing and supplying steam locomotive and hopper equipment and parts for the industrial rail road industry in Southern Africa. With the introduction of diesel hydraulic and diesel electric locomotives in the early 1960s it also began to import, manufacture and stock equipment and parts ...
Lima was a popular, affordable brand of 00 gauge and N gauge model railway material in the UK, more detailed H0 and N gauge models in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States as well as South Africa, Scandinavia and Australia. Lima also produced a small range of 0 gauge models. Lima partnered with various distributors and ...
South Africa: Paddock, KwaZulu-Natal: Scrapped at Paddock, South Africa August 2017. Engine units sent with 156 to Ixopo. NG150 Hunslet-Taylor: South Africa: Sandstone Estates: Unrestored, scrap condition. [6] NG151 Hunslet-Taylor: South Africa: Paddock, KwaZulu-Natal: Scrapped at Paddock, South Africa July 2023 NG152 Hunslet-Taylor: South ...
This is a category for companies who have made products related to model railroading or railway modelling. See also Category:Toy train manufacturers. Subcategories.
Natal Railway Company (NRC) Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NZASM) New Cape Central Railway (NCCR) Oranje-Vrijstaat Gouwerment-Spoorwegen (OVGS) Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway (PPR) South African Railways (SAR) Spoornet; Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) Zululand Railway Company
The South African Railways Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1954 is an articulated steam locomotive. Between 1954 and 1958, the South African Railways placed 120 Class GMA Garratt articulated steam locomotives with a 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. All the locomotives could be configured as either a Class GMA branch line ...
The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. [1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive." [2]
As a result of heavy traffic demands on the Otavi Railway in South West Africa (SWA), three additional locomotives were ordered in 1931. The Class NG15 2-8-2 Mikado type narrow-gauge steam locomotive was designed by the South African Railways (SAR) and built by Henschel and Son for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company.