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EAR 58 class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1949· class of 18 East African 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratt locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EAR 5803, Changamwe, circa 1950-51: East African Railways - R. Ramaer collection· Public domain
what is it?
The EAR 58 class was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratt-type articulated steam locomotives built by Beyer, Peacock & Co. in Manchester, England, in 1949. The eighteen members of the class were ordered by the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) immediately after World War II, and were a slightly modified, oil-burning version of the KUR's existing coal-fired EC3 class.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 77 years ago, in 1949.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1949
- in service from
- 1949
- status
- retired
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- designer
- Beyer, Peacock & Co., K.C. Strahan, H.B. Stoyle
- operators
- East African Railways and Harbours Corporation
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratt
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1273853, Wikipedia: EAR 58 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.