gap-filling on the CGR engine number roster. These locomotives were very similar in design and appearance to the six CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 engines of 1901...

CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1883 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1884 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1889 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1898 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1901 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1903...

any locomotive on the CGR to date at 60 inches (1,520 millimetres) diameter. In 1903, the CGR placed the last eight 3rd Class Wynberg Tenders in suburban...

(Tender) CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1884 (Tender, experimental) CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1889 (Tender) CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1898 (Tender) CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1901 (Tender)...

Orders for the last 8th Class locomotives for the CGR were placed with the North British Locomotive Company (NBL) in 1903. The ten locomotives were...

and scrapped in 1912. In 1903, English locomotive builders Kitson and Company proposed that the Cape Government Railways (CGR), the Beira and Mashonaland...

Railways Class 8D 4-8-0 of 1903 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1903, when the first batch of 8th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon...

millimetres). The 23 locomotives of 1902 and 1903 were the first 8th Class locomotives of the CGR to be built with a 4-8-0 Mastodon type wheel arrangement. These...

designated Class 6L. The Cape Government Railways (CGR) placed its last order for two 6th Class locomotives with Neilson, Reid and Company in 1903. In that...

scrapped in 1903. No more of the type would be placed in service in South Africa. Wikimedia Commons has media related to CGR Fairlie 0-6-0+0-6-0. Dulez, Jean...

Cape Government Railways (CGR): The last eight 3rd Class Wynberg Tender suburban locomotives in Cape Town. Two Karoo Class 4-6-2 Pacific passenger locomotives...

renumbered and designated Class 8Y. The first locomotive in the Cape Government Railways (CGR) 2-8-0 Consolidation type 8th Class, later to be designated...

The South African Railways Class 8B 4-8-0 of 1903 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal Colony. In 1903, soon after its establishment...

Colony and when the CGR later took control of the colliery line, these locomotives were classified as part of the CGR 3rd Class. All four survived to...

renumbered and designated Class 5A. The Karoo Class of the Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the first tender locomotive with a 4-6-2 Pacific type wheel...

Railways (CGR): Six 4-4-0 3rd Class Wynberg Tender locomotives in suburban service in Cape Town. Eight redesigned American-built 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives...

African Railways Class 7D 4-8-0 of 1915 was a steam locomotive. Between 1899 and 1903, the Rhodesia Railways placed 52 Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon steam...

designated Class 6Y. The Cape 6th Class 2-6-2 Prairie type locomotive was designed at the Salt River works of the Cape Government Railways (CGR) and was...

in 1903. Like CGR no. 804, the first experimental CGR tandem compound locomotive which had been delivered the year before, it was based on the CGR's Schenectady-built...

Superintendent of the Cape Government Railways (CGR) from 1896 to 1910. It was a larger version of his 9th Class of 1903, which was also built with a bar frame...

Class Experimental 4. The Cape 9th Class locomotive was designed by H.M. Beatty, the Locomotive Superintendent of the Cape Government Railways (CGR)...

African Railways Class 7F 4-8-0 of 1913 was a steam locomotive. In 1913, the New Cape Central Railway placed three Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam...

Railways Class GE 2-8-2+2-8-2 of 1925 was an articulated steam locomotive. Between 1925 and 1931, the South African Railways placed 18 Class GE Garratt...

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...

introduced by H.M. Beatty on his Cape Government Railways (CGR) 6th Class 2-6-2 of 1903, later the Class 6Y on the South African Railways (SAR). With a bridle...

placed one Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam locomotive in service. Another three were commissioned in 1900, two more in 1903 and another one in...

1901: CGR 6th Class 2-6-4, SAR Class 6Z, numbers 713 to 720. 1903: CGR Karoo Class of 1903, SAR Class 5A, numbers 903 and 904. 1903: CGR 6th Class 2-6-2...

locomotives which had been delivered to the Cape Government Railways (CGR) in 1903, except that they were equipped with Walschaerts valve gear. They were...

"0" prefixed to their existing engine numbers. Even though obsolete, they remained in service until 1931. Wikimedia Commons has media related to CGR 2-6-0ST...

used in 1884 on the experimental 3rd Class 4-4-0 and 4th class 4-6-0TT locomotives of the Cape Government Railways (CGR). It was not used in South Africa...