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- 1. SA Harbour ex HAM 0-4-0 No. 69: Arthur Hackett· Public domain
what is it?
The South African Railways Dock Shunter 0-4-0T of 1909 was a steam locomotive. A single second-hand 0-4-0T locomotive was bought by the South African Railways in 1941 and employed as harbour shunting engine in Cape Town. The engine had, until then, been used as construction locomotive by the contractors who undertook the construction of the new Table Bay harbour.
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 117 years ago, in 1909.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1909
- in service from
- 1909
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- builders
- Orenstein & Koppel
- designer
- Orenstein & Koppel
- operators
- Hollandse Anneming Maatschappij, South African Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- 104 kW
- gauge
- 900 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7565700, Wikipedia: South African Dock Shunter 0-4-0T (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.