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CGR 0-4-0ST 1873
🇿🇦 South Africa ·built by Manning, Wardle and Company· from 1873· class of 3 South African 0-4-0ST locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CGR 0-4-0ST 1873 no. M2 Little Bess: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The Cape Government Railways 0-4-0ST of 1873 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1873, two Cape gauge 0-4-0ST locomotives were placed in construction service by Mac Donald & Company, contractors to the Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage Railway Company. When the contract was completed in 1875, the railway and the locomotives were taken over by the Midland System of the Cape 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 153 years ago, in 1873.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1873–1874
- in service from
- 1873
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- builders
- Manning, Wardle and Company
- designer
- Manning Wardle & Company
- operators
- Cape Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16960847, Wikipedia: CGR 0-4-0ST 1873 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.