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CGR NG 0-6-0T
🇿🇦 South Africa ·built by Krauss & Company· from 1902· South African steam locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CGR 0-6-0T no. 21 1902: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The Cape Government Railways NG 0-6-0T of 1903 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1902, Arthur Koppel, acting as agent, imported a single 0-6-0T narrow gauge tank steam locomotive for a customer in Durban. It was then purchased by the Cape Government Railways and used as construction locomotive on the Avontuur branch from 1903.
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 124 years ago, in 1902.
- Served for 15 years (1903–1918).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1902
- in service from
- 1903
- retired
- 1918
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- builders
- Krauss & Company
- designer
- Krauss & Company
- operators
- Cape Government Railways, Transnet Freight Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 610 mm 2 ft narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16960919, Wikipedia: CGR NG 0-6-0T (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.