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CSAR Class E 4-10-2T
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Dübs and Company· from 1901· class of 35 South African 4-12-2T locomotives
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what is it?
The Central South African Railways Class E 4-10-2T of 1901 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal. In 1901 and 1902, during the Second Boer War, the Imperial Military Railways placed 35 tank locomotives with a 4-10-2T wheel arrangement in service, built to the design of the Reid Tenwheeler of the Natal Government Railways.
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
- 1901–1902
- in service from
- 1901
- number built
- 35
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Dübs and Company, Neilson and Company
- designer
- Natal Government Railways, (G.W. Reid)
- operators
- Imperial Military Railways, Central South African Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-10-2T (Reid Tenwheeler)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17051011, Wikipedia: CSAR Class E 4-10-2T (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.