#1932
UR GC class
🇰🇪 Kenya ·built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company· from 1921· class of 2 East African 4-8-0 locomotives
what is it?
The UR GC class, later known as the UR / KUR EB2 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company in Patricroft, Salford, England, for the Uganda Railway (UR). Its design was very similar to that of the earlier UR G class and UR GB class, save that the two members of the GC class were equipped with piston valves and a Robinson superheater. The GC class entered service on the UR in 1921, and continued in service after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.
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 105 years ago, in 1921.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1921
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇰🇪 Kenya
- builders
- Nasmyth, Wilson and Company
- operators
- Uganda Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23895001, Wikipedia: UR GC class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.