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SAR postcard series No 5: Ten CGR 1st Class tender engines were converted to saddle tank locomotives and served mainly with the Port Elizabeth Harbour Board although they tended to be moved to other ports. This engine is SAR No 0416.
Burgersdorp, 1895. CGR 4th Class 'Conv Joys' with Baldwin built CGR 1st Class 2-6-0 on right of shed. (EH Short)
Madibogo, 1895. Cape 1st Class 1879 locomotive at store of S Solomon and Co looking south. (EH Short)
Pokwani, 1895. Stacked rails in the foreground with train hauled by Cape 1st Class in the distance. (EH Short)
Dronfield, 1895. Station building with train hauled by Cape 1st Class 1879 in the distance. (EH Short)
Kimberley, 1896. Beaconsfield station looking south with Cape 1st Class built 1879-80 in yard. (EH Short)
Bloemfontein district, 17 December 1890. CGR Class 01 No 123 at Kaalspruit, hauling the first train into Bloemfontein. (J Geo Fraser, Jnr; published in SARM March 1946 p201)
Colesberg, 1898. Cape 1st Class No 448 used between Colesberg Junction and the town, affectionately known as the 'Colesberg Buster'. In 1910 was renumbered SAR Class 01 No 0448.
CGR 1st Class No 18 built by Avonside Engine Co. Employed on the construction of the New Cape Central Railways circa 1885.
Cape 1st Class 4-4-0 built by Avonside & Neilson 1878/80. All were sold or scrapped by 1910 except No 40 which become SAR Class 01 No 040.
CGR 1st Class No 42 Inclined cylinder engine (Beyer Peacock 1886) Train in station, with Driver DP Bromfield. (HE Fripp, Beaufort West)
1880. Cape 1st Class Neilson 4-4-0TT. Their tenders were coupled with bell buffers and when needed they could be simply uncoupled making them tank engines.
1940. Starting life as Cape 1st Class 2-6-0 tender engines, 10 of these were converted to 2-6-0ST. Five survived and were sold to the Port Elizabeth Harbour Board. In 1910 they became Cape 1st Class including this No 0416.
1940. Starting life as Cape 1st Class 2-6-0 tender engines, 10 of these were converted to 2-6-0ST. Five survived and were sold to the PEHB. In 1910 they became Cape 1st Class including this No 0416.
Kimberley. CGR 1st Class 2-6-0 No 19 built by Beyer Peacock, first locomotive to cross the Orange and Modder Rivers to enter Kimberley.
Kimberley, 28 November 1885. CGR 1st Class No 19 with Driver A Stewart, first locomotive to cross the Orange and Modder Rivers hauling the first train into Kimberley.
The Cape Government Railway contracted to build the line from Colesberg to Kroonstad in the Orange Free State. For this they used a Cape 1st Class engine No 123 shown here on a small trestle bridge. (Brounger Collection No 11)
Kimberley district. CGR 1st Class No 19, later SAR Class 01, with staff. First locomotive to cross the Orange and Modder Rivers. See N43426 and N42107.
