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The South African Railways Class 8B 4-8-0 of 1903 is a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Transvaal. In 1903, soon after its establishment, the Central South African Railways placed thirty Class 8-L2 Mastodon type steam locomotives in service. In 1912, when they were assimilated into the South African Railways, they were renumbered and reclassified to Class 8B.〔Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 8, 12, 15, 41 (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)〕 ==Manufacturers== Upon the establishment of the Central South African Railways (CSAR) in July 1902, soon after the end of the Second Freedom War, Chief Locomotive Superintendent P.A. Hyde became the custodian of a mixed bag of locomotives inherited from the Imperial Military Railways (IMR). These included locomotives that originated with the Selati Railway, the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NZASM), the Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway (PPR) and the Oranje-Vrijstaat Gouwerment-Spoorwegen (OVGS). The comparatively small number of serviceable locomotives that were immediately available for service, compounded by the poor condition of many of the original NZASM, PPR, Selati and OVGS locomotives as well as an expected post-war increase in traffic, led to an order for thirty Cape 8th Class steam locomotives from Neilson, Reid and Company.〔〔Neilson, Reid works list, compiled by Austrian locomotive historian Bernhard Schmeiser〕 They were built to the specifications of the 8th Class Mastodon type designed by H.M. Beatty, the Chief Locomotive Superintendent of the Cape Government Railways (CGR) from 1896 to 1910, and were the first locomotives to be ordered under the CSAR administration. Since they differed from the Class 8-L1 that was inherited from the IMR, being equipped with Drummond tubes, these locomotives were designated CSAR Class 8-L2.〔〔 While they were being built, Neilson, Reid amalgamated with Dübs and Company and Sharp, Stewart and Company to form the North British Locomotive Company (NBL). As a result, the first ten of these locomotives, numbered in the range from 441 to 450, were delivered as built by Neilson, Reid while the other twenty, numbered in the range from 451 to 470, were delivered as built by NBL, although all the NBL locomotives were also built at the Hyde Park shops of the former Neilson, Reid.〔〔North British Locomotive Company works list, compiled by Austrian locomotive historian Bernhard Schmeiser〕 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 8B 4-8-0」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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