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CGR 0-6-0T
🇿🇦 South Africa ·built by Robert Stephenson and Company· from 1875· class of 3 South African 0-6-0T locomotives, designed to run back-to-back
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CGR 0-6-0T 1876 Back-to-Back: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Cape Government Railways 0-6-0T back-to-back of 1876 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1876 the Cape Government Railways placed a pair of Stephenson's Patent permanently coupled back-to-back 0-6-0T locomotives in service on its Eastern System. They worked out of East London in comparative trials with an experimental 0-6-0+0-6-0T Fairlie locomotive which was acquired in that same year.
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 151 years ago, in 1875.
- Served for 36 years (1876–1912).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1875–1879
- in service from
- 1876
- retired
- 1912
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- builders
- Robert Stephenson and Company
- designer
- Robert Stephenson and Company
- operators
- Cape Government Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16257187, Wikipedia: CGR 0-6-0T (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.