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South African Class D 2-6-4T
🇿🇦 South Africa ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1897· class of 6 South African 2-6-4T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. PPR no. 2, Class D 2-6-4T no. 57: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The South African Railways Class D 2-6-4T of 1898 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal. Between 1898 and 1900, the Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway placed six 55 Tonner 2-6-4T "Adriatic" type tank steam locomotives in service. During the Second Boer War, the Transvaal government took possession of the railway and it was operated as part of the Netherlands-South African Railway Company, until the Imperial Military Railways took over all railway operations in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek.
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 129 years ago, in 1897.
- Served for 32 years (1898–1930).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1897–1900
- in service from
- 1898
- retired
- 1930
- status
- retired
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- designer
- Beyer, Peacock & Company
- operators
- Central South African Railways, Transnet Freight Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-4
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2044520, Wikipedia: South African Class D 2-6-4T (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.