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The South African Railways Class 6D 4-6-0 of 1898 is a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1898 a fourth batch of thirty-three 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives were placed in service by the Cape Government Railways. In 1912, when these locomotives were assimilated into the South African Railways, they were renumbered and reclassified to Class 6D.〔Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 8, 12, 14, 31-32 (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)〕 ==Manufacturer== 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 Chief Locomotive Superintendent of the CGR, and under the supervision of H.M. Beatty, at the time Locomotive Superintendent of the Cape Western System. Whereas the 7th Class was conceived primarily as a goods locomotive, the 6th Class was intended to be its fast passenger service counterpart.〔 The thirty-three locomotives in this fourth group of the 6th Class were built in 1898 by Neilson, Reid and Company. Of these locomotives, twenty-six went to the CGR’s Western System, numbered in the range from 234 to 259, three to the Midland System, numbered 585, 586 and 594, and four to the Eastern System, numbered in the range from 665 to 668.〔〔Neilson, Reid works list, compiled by Austrian locomotive historian Bernhard Schmeiser〕 These locomotives represented a further advance on earlier 6th Class locomotives, with a greater heating surface and a larger grate area. They did, however, revert to the same Type YC six wheeled tenders that were earlier 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 6D 4-6-0」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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