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The South African Railways Class 6B 4-6-0 of 1897 is a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1897 and 1898 the Cape Government Railways placed a third batch of fifty-five 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives in service, thirty-two on its Western System, twenty-one on its Midland System and two on its Eastern System. During the Second Freedom War seven were transferred to the Imperial Military Railways on loan, and in 1907 four were sold to the Benguela Railway in Angola. In 1912, when the remaining fifty-one locomotives were assimilated into the South African Railways, they were renumbered and reclassified to Class 6B. During World War II two of them were sold to the Sudan Railways.〔Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 8, 12, 14, 30-31 (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, then Chief Locomotive Superintendent of the CGR, and under the supervision of H.M. Beatty, then 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-five locomotives in the third group were built between 1897 and 1898 by Dübs and Company and Neilson and Company. While they were being built, in 1898, the firm of Neilson and Company changed its name to Neilson, Reid and Company. Five of these locomotives were built by Dübs and of the remaining fifty, thirty-seven were delivered as built by Neilson and the last thirteen as built by Neilson, Reid.〔〔Neilson, Reid works list, compiled by Austrian locomotive historian Bernhard Schmeiser〕 All five Dübs-built locomotives, numbered in the range from 577 to 581, and the thirteen Neilson, Reid-builts, numbered in the ranges from 587 to 593 and 595 to 600, went to the Midland System. Of the thirty-seven Neilson-builts, thirty-two went to the Western System, numbered in the range from 202 to 233, three to the Midland System, numbered in the range from 582 to 584, and two to the Eastern System, numbered 663 and 664. Their respective works numbers and CGR engine numbers are tabulated below.〔 These locomotives were to all intents and purposes identical to the previous fifty that became the Class 6A, except that they had Type XE bogie tenders instead of the six wheeled Type YC tenders that were used with the second group of 6th Class locomotives.〔 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 6B 4-6-0」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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