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South African Class 14A 4-8-2 : ウィキペディア英語版 | South African Class 14A 4-8-2
The South African Railways Class 14A 4-8-2 of 1914 is a steam locomotive. In 1914 and 1915 the South African Railways placed forty-one Class 14A steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. ==Manufacturer== Following the success of the Class 14, D.A. Hendrie, then the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR), used the design as basis for the lighter Class 14A locomotive for use on coastal lines. The second version of the Class 14 locomotive was ordered from the North British Locomotive Company (NBL) in 1913 and was built in two batches. Twenty were delivered in 1914, numbered in the range from 1576 to 1595, and another twenty-one in 1914 and 1915, numbered in the range from 1901 to 1921.〔North British Locomotive Company works list, compiled by Austrian locomotive historian Bernhard Schmeiser〕 Like the Class 14, the Class 14A had Walschaerts valve gear and a Belpaire firebox and was superheated, but it had nearly less boiler diameter than the Class 14 in order to reduce the axle loading to , specifically for use on the lighter track on the Cape Eastern mainline from East London. To compensate for the smaller boilers, they were equipped with smaller cylinders with a bore of instead of .〔〔
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