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Early tenders. In 1860, the Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-2 of the Cape Town-Wellington Railway was the first tender locomotive type to enter mainline service in South Africa. The first of these came ashore in Cape Town on 20 March of that year. It had a small two-axle tender with a 1,250 imperial gallons (5,680 litres) water capacity.
The South African type JT tender was a steam locomotive tender. Type JT tenders first entered service in 1935 as tenders to the Class 15E 4-8-2 Mountain and Class 16E 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives which were placed in service by the South African Railways in that year. Until 1946, more entered service as tenders to more Class 15E and the ...
Type MY tenders were built in 1949 by the North British Locomotive Company.. The Class 24 2-8-4 Berkshire type steam locomotive was designed by Dr. M.M. Loubser, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1939 to 1949, to replace the old Classes 6, 7 and 8 locomotives in branchline service on light rail in South Africa and especially in South West Africa.
Pages in category "Steam locomotive tenders of South Africa" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
South African Railways. Numbers. SAR 360-373. The South African type GT tender was a steam locomotive tender. Type GT tenders entered service in 1929, as tenders to the Class S 0-8-0 shunting steam locomotives which were placed in service by the South African Railways in that year. [1] [2] [3]
The South African type EW2 tender was a steam locomotive tender. Type EW2 tenders were rebuilt from Type CZ tenders which had entered service between 1953 and 1955 as steam condensing tenders to the Class 25 4-8-4 Northern type condensing steam locomotives. The tenders were stripped of their condensing equipment and fitted with huge water tanks ...
The Type FT tender was built in 1937 by North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow. [1] The South African Railways (SAR) placed a single Class 21 steam locomotive in service in 1937. The engine and tender were built to the design of A.G. Watson, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the SAR from 1929 to 1936. After trials, the locomotive was placed in ...
The South African type ZA tender was a steam locomotive tender from the pre- Union era in the Cape of Good Hope . The Type ZA tender entered service in 1892, as tenders to the first batch of 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam locomotives to be acquired by the Cape Government Railways. These locomotives were designated Class 7 on the South ...