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Withdrawn. 1918. The South African Railways NG 0-4-0T of 1899 was a narrow-gauge steam locomotive from the pre- Union era in Transvaal and Natal . In 1899, Rand Mines acquired two narrow-gauge 0-4-0 T steam locomotives from Avonside Engine Company and, in 1900, a similar locomotive was delivered to Reynolds Brothers Sugar Estates of Esperanza ...
The first railway locomotive to run in revenue earning service in South Africa was a small broad gauge 0-4-0WT well tank engine named Natal, manufactured by Carrett, Marshall and Company of Leeds. It made its inaugural run from Market Square to Point station in Durban during the official opening of the first operating railway in South Africa on ...
1897 & 1898. First run. 1897. Withdrawn. 1936. The South African Railways Class NG2 0-4-2ST of 1897 was a narrow-gauge steam locomotive from the pre- Union era in Transvaal . Between 1897 and 1901, Arthur Koppel, acting as agent, imported a number of Dickson-built 0-4-2 ST narrow-gauge steam locomotives for mines on the Witwatersrand. In 1915 ...
The Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-0T of 1858 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre- Union era in the Cape of Good Hope, and the first locomotive in South Africa. In September 1858, Messrs. E. & J. Pickering, contractors to the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company for the construction of the Cape Town-Wellington railway line, imported a ...
The South African Railways Dock Shunter 0-4-0T of 1909 was a steam locomotive. A single second-hand 0-4-0 T locomotive was bought by the South African Railways in 1941 and employed as harbour shunting engine in Cape Town. The engine had, until then, been used as construction locomotive by the contractors who undertook the construction of the ...
The Class 23 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotive was designed by W.A.J. Day, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1936 to 1939. It was intended as a general utility locomotive, capable of operating on 80 pounds per yard (40 kilograms per metre) rail, and was built in two batches by Berliner Maschinenbau and ...
South African Class 15F 4-8-2. Water cap. Factor of adh. The South African Railways Class 15F 4-8-2 of 1938 is a steam locomotive. The Class 15F was the most numerous steam locomotive class in South African Railways service. Between 1938 and 1948, 255 of these locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain type wheel arrangement entered service. [1][2][3][4]
Ratel IFV. The Ratel is a South African infantry fighting vehicle. It was the first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle to enter service worldwide [10] and was built on a modified MAN truck chassis. [1] The Ratel was designed in response to a South African Army specification for a light armoured vehicle suited to the demands of rapid offensives ...