Item N55000 - This 4'-8 1/2" gauge locomotive was built by Fox, Walker & Co works No 352 and was delivered on the 1 January 1878 for work on the east bank of Port Alfred harbour for construction. It was buried during WW1. In 1960 the remains were exhumed and moved by road to Port Elizabeth Museum. In the 1970's she was unceremoniously cut up by a local scrap merchant.

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This 4'-8 1/2" gauge locomotive was built by Fox, Walker & Co works No 352 and was delivered on the 1 January 1878 for work on the east bank of Port Alfred harbour for construction. It was buried during WW1. In 1960 the remains were exhumed and moved by road to Port Elizabeth Museum. In the 1970's she was unceremoniously cut up by a local scrap merchant.

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