#0906
South African Class NG2 0-4-2ST
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Dickson Manufacturing Company· from 1897· narrow-gauge steam locomotive
_as_built.jpg)
_modified.jpg)
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SAR Class NG2 (0-4-2ST) as built: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 2. SAR Class NG2 93 (0-4-2T) modified: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The South African Railways Class NG2 0-4-2ST of 1897 was a narrow-gauge steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal. Between 1897 and 1901, Arthur Koppel, acting as agent, imported a number of Dickson-built 0-4-2ST narrow-gauge steam locomotives for mines on the Witwatersrand. In 1915, when an urgent need arose for additional locomotives in German South West Africa during the First World War, two of the 0-4-2ST locomotives were purchased second-hand by the South African Railways, for use in that territory.
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 39 years (1897–1936).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1897–1898
- in service from
- 1897
- retired
- 1936
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Dickson Manufacturing Company
- designer
- Dickson Manufacturing Company
- operators
- South African Railways and Harbours Administration
- top speed
- —
- power
- 79 kW
- gauge
- 600 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7565661, Wikipedia: South African Class NG2 0-4-2ST (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.