CGR 0-4-0ST 1881

Table Bay Harbour 0-4-0ST (3'6")
CGR 0-4-0ST 1881
South African 0-4-0ST 1881

Table Bay Harbour's no. 14, then CGR no. 14, then SAR no. 014, in Port Elizabeth c. 1930
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Designer Black, Hawthorn & Co.
Builder Black, Hawthorn & Co.
Chapman and Furneaux
Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Serial number See table
Build date 1881-1904
Specifications
Configuration 0-4-0ST (Four-coupled)
Driver 2nd coupled axle
Gauge 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge
Coupled dia. 34 in (864 mm)
Wheelbase 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)
Length:
  Over couplers 18 ft 4 12 in (5,601 mm)
  Over beams 16 ft 1 in (4,902 mm)
Height 9 ft 7 in (2,921 mm)
Fuel type Coal
Fuel capacity 10 long hundredweight (0.5 t)
Water cap 350 imp gal (1,590 l)
Firebox type Round-top
  Firegrate area 5 sq ft (0.46 m2)
Boiler:
  Type Domeless
  Pitch 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm)
  Diameter 2 ft 11 14 in (895 mm) outside
  Tube plates 8 ft (2,438 mm)
  Small tubes 70: 1 34 in (44 mm)
Boiler pressure 130 psi (896 kPa)
Safety valve Ramsbottom
Heating surface 303 sq ft (28.1 m2)
  Tubes 274 sq ft (25.5 m2)
  Firebox 29 sq ft (2.7 m2)
Cylinders Two
Cylinder size 10 in (254 mm) bore
17 in (432 mm) stroke
Valve gear Stephenson
Couplers Johnston link-and-pin
Performance figures
Tractive effort 4,875 lbf (21.69 kN) @ 75%
Career
Operators Table Bay Harbour Board
Cape Government Railways
South African Railways
Number in class 13
Numbers 1, 6, 7, 9-17, 29
Delivered 1881-1904
First run 1881
Last run 1938

The Cape Government Railways 0-4-0ST of 1881 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.

Between 1881 and 1904, thirteen 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotives entered shunting service at the Table Bay Harbour in Cape Town. They were virtually identical to three Brunel gauge locomotives which entered service as breakwater construction locomotives in Table Bay Harbour between 1881 and 1893. In 1908, they were taken onto the Cape Government Railways roster and in 1912, when the South African Railways was established, eleven were still in stock.[1][2][3]

Manufacturers

Thirteen 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotives were acquired by the Table Bay Harbour Board in Cape Town between 1881 and 1904, for use as dock shunters at the harbour. They were delivered in five batches from three manufacturers.[3]

Characteristics

The locomotives were virtually identical to three Brunel gauge 0-4-0ST locomotives which entered service as breakwater construction engines in Table Bay Harbour between 1881 and 1893. Apart from the gauge difference, the Brunel gauge engines had larger bore cylinders of 11 inches (279 millimetres) diameter, compared to the 10 inches (254 millimetres) bore of the Cape gauge engines. Both engine types had domeless boilers with a sandbox mounted in the centre of the saddle tank.[1][3]

Service

Cape Government Railways

By 1908, no. 1 was already either scrapped or sold. The remaining twelve locomotives were all taken onto the Cape Government Railways (CGR) roster in 1908. They retained their original Harbour Board numbers while in CGR service.[3]

South African Railways

When the Union of South Africa was established on 31 May 1910, the three Colonial government railways (CGR, Natal Government Railways and Central South African Railways) were united under a single administration to control and administer the railways, ports and harbours of the Union. Even though the South African Railways and Harbours came into existence in 1910, the actual classification and renumbering of all the rolling stock of the three constituent railways was only implemented with effect from 1 January 1912.[6][7]

Black, Hawthorn-built no. 11, c. 1912

By 1912, eleven of these locomotives survived, but they were considered obsolete and excluded from the South African Railways (SAR) classification and renumbering program. While ten of them were listed in the notes to the renumbering lists as having been excluded, no. 15 was not mentioned. They were initially staged in a shed in Cape Town, but appear to have been placed back in service, since a number of them survived into the mid-1930s before being scrapped.[1][2][3][7]

Obsolete locomotives on the SAR had the numeral "0" prefixed to their existing numbers, although on these engines it appears that new number plates to that effect were never affixed to them. In the SAR era, no. 09 was transferred to Mosselbaai Harbour and two, numbers 010 and 014, went to Port Elizabeth Harbour. No. 15, which was not mentioned in the SAR renumbering lists of 1912, was sold to Lourenco Marques Forwarding Agency in Mozambique in 1913 and employed in the Lourenco Marques docks. The rest remained in service in Table Bay Harbour until they were withdrawn.[1][3]

Works numbers and disposition

The numbers, builders, works numbers, dates ordered, SAR numbers and disposition of these locomotives are listed in the table.[1][3][4][7]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Holland, D.F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways, Volume 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. pp. 116–117, 122–123. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
  2. 1 2 Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. p. 25. ISBN 0869772112.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Contents of emails received from Dr John Middleton, Washington. Transcripts copied to Table Bay Harbour locomotives by Black, Hawthorn & Chapman and Furneaux for retention and easy reference.
  4. 1 2 3 Contents of emails received from Dr John Middleton, Washington. Transcripts copied to Table Bay Harbour construction locomotives for retention and easy reference.
  5. Contents of emails received from Dr John Middleton, Washington. Transcripts copied to Table Bay Harbour locomotive no. 29 by Hawthorn Leslie for retention and easy reference.
  6. The South African Railways - Historical Survey. Editor George Hart, Publisher Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd., Published c. 1978, p. 25.
  7. 1 2 3 Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Office, Pretoria, January 1912, p. 2. (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)
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