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The South African Railways Class MJ 2-6-6-0 of 1914 is a steam locomotive. Between 1914 and 1921 the South African Railways placed eighteen Class MJ Mallet articulated compound steam locomotives with a wheel arrangement in branchline service.〔South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2’0” & 3’6” Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended〕 ==Manufacturers== The Class MJ 2-6-6-0 Mallet articulated compound steam locomotive was designed by D.A. Hendrie, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1910 to 1922. Ten of these branchline locomotives were ordered from Maffei but, as a result of the outbreak of World War I, only two could be delivered from Germany in 1914, numbered 1651 and 1652 with works numbers 3452 and 3453.〔〔 The order for the remaining eight was then transferred to North British Locomotive Company (NBL) in Scotland, who delivered them in 1917, numbered in the range from 1653 to 1660.〔〔〔North British Locomotive Company works list, compiled by Austrian locomotive historian Bernhard Schmeiser〕 The works numbers for the eight NBL built locomotives are recorded as 21248 to 21255, but these numbers are in conflict with the NBL works numbers 21246 to 21275 that were allocated to thirty 2-8-2T locomotives, numbered 5381 to 5410 and built by NBL in 1917 for the Paris-Orleans railway in France.〔〔〔North British Locomotive Co. (from J. Lambert)〕 After the cessation of hostilities in 1918, Maffei approached the SAR and requested that the balance of the original order, which had been built in 1914 but could not be delivered because of the war, also be accepted. These eight locomotives were subsequently delivered in 1921, numbered in the range from 1674 to 1681 with works numbers 3454 to 3461.〔〔 They were superheated and had Walschaerts valve gear. Unlike most of the other SAR Mallet classes which had round top fireboxes, they had Belpaire fireboxes.〔〔 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 MJ 2-6-6-0」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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