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Namaqualand 0-4-2ST Pioneer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Dick, Kerr & Co.· from 1901· class of 1 South African 0-4-2ST locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NCC Pioneer 0-4-0ST c: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The Namaqua Copper Company 0-4-2ST Pioneer of 1901 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1901, the Namaqua Copper Company acquired its first locomotive, a 0-4-2ST shunting engine named Pioneer, for use on its tramway line between its main mine at Tweefontein and Flat Mine at Concordia.
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 125 years ago, in 1901.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1901
- in service from
- 1901
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Dick, Kerr & Co.
- designer
- Dick, Kerr & Company
- operators
- Namaqua Copper Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 762 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17076977, Wikipedia: Namaqualand 0-4-2ST Pioneer (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.