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Table Bay Harbour 0-4-0WT
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Fletcher, Jennings & Co.· from 1879· South African industrial locomotive, built 1879
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Harbour Board TB 0-4-0WT 1879: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The Table Bay Harbour 0-4-0WT of 1879 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. Altogether, seven Brunel gauge locomotives are known to have been employed on the Table Bay Harbour project between 1862 and 1904. The fourth of these construction locomotives was a 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) Brunel gauge 0-4-0WT well-tank engine which entered excavation and breakwater construction service in 1879.
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 147 years ago, in 1879.
- Served for 25 years (1879–1904).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1879
- in service from
- 1879
- retired
- 1904
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Fletcher, Jennings & Co.
- designer
- Fletcher, Jennings & Co.
- operators
- Table Bay Harbour Board
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 2,140 mm Brunel broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17055453, Wikipedia: Table Bay Harbour 0-4-0WT (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.