#1172
South African Class 8C 4-8-0
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1903· class of 30 South African 4-8-0 locomotives
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SAR Class 8C 1174 (4-8-0) CSAR 483: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 2. Class 8C & Type XF tender no. 1175: User:Lourens Sturgeon· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Class 8C Type XF tender no. 1175 a: User:Lourens Sturgeon· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Class 8C Type XF tender no. 1175 b: User:Lourens Sturgeon· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The South African Railways Class 8C 4-8-0 of 1903 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal Colony. In 1903, soon after the establishment of the Central South African Railways, a second batch of thirty Cape 8th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon steam locomotives were ordered and placed in service as the Class 8-L3, immediately following upon a previous order in that same year for a variation on the same locomotive type.
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 123 years ago, in 1903.
- Served for 69 years (1903–1972).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1903
- in service from
- 1903
- retired
- 1972
- status
- retired
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- North British Locomotive Company
- designer
- Cape Government Railways, (H.M. Beatty)
- operators
- Central South African Railways, Transnet Freight Rail, South African Railways and Harbours Administration
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-0 (Mastodon)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7565590, Wikipedia: South African Class 8C 4-8-0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.