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The South African Railways Class 6A 4-6-0 of 1896 is a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1896 and 1897 the Cape Government Railways placed a second batch of fifty 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives in service, forty-one on its Western System, six on its Midland System and three on its Eastern System. During the Second Boer War four of them were transferred to the Imperial Military Railways on loan, and in 1907 one was sold to the Benguela Railway in Angola. In 1912, when the remaining forty-nine locomotives were assimilated into the South African Railways, they were renumbered and reclassified to Class 6A.〔Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 8, 12, 14, 28-30 (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)〕 ==Manufacturers== The 6th Class 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotive was designed at the Salt River works of the Cape Government Railways (CGR) at the same time as the 7th Class, both according to the specifications of Michael Stephens, at the time the Chief Locomotive Superintendent of the CGR, and under the supervision of H.M. Beatty, at the time the Locomotive Superintendent of the Cape Western System. Whereas the Class 7 was conceived primarily as a goods locomotive, the 6th Class was intended to be its fast passenger service counterpart.〔 The fifty locomotives in this second group were built between 1895 and 1897 by Dübs and Company and Sharp, Stewart and Company and were delivered in 1896 and 1897, numbered in the ranges from 161 to 201 for the CGR’s Western System, 371 to 376 for the Midland System and 660 to 662 for the Eastern System.〔 These locomotives differed from the previous order in having slightly larger boilers with an increased heating surface and Type YC tenders with a larger coal and water capacity.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South African Class 6A 4-6-0」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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