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The South West African 2-8-0T of 1907 was a steam locomotive from the Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika era. Between 1907 and 1910 the Lüderitzbucht Eisenbahn (Lüderitzbucht Railway) in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika (German South West Africa) placed twenty-three tank locomotives with a 2-8-0 Consolidation type wheel arrangement in service. After the First World War, when all railways in the territory came under the administration of the South African Railways in 1922, five of these locomotives still survived. They were not classified or renumbered but were referred to as the Eight-Coupled Tanks. ==Manufacturer== In 1907 eight Cape Gauge tank locomotives with a 2-8-0 Consolidation type wheel arrangement were delivered to the Lüderitzbucht Eisenbahn in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika (now Namibia) by Orenstein & Koppel, numbered in the range from 1 to 8 and all built in 1906. The first six of these locomotives were two-cylinder compound engines that were built to the Von Borries principles and were the only compound locomotives of this design to serve in Southern Africa. The other two, numbers 7 and 8, were two-cylinder simple-expansion (simplex) engines.〔(Lieferverzeichnis O and K Dampfloks )〕〔 A second batch of thirteen locomotives was delivered from the same manufacturer between 1907 and 1910, built between 1907 and 1909 and numbered in the ranges from 9 to 18 and 20 to 21. They were all two-cylinder simplex locomotives, identical to the last two of the first batch. Both versions of the type were equipped with dust shields over the driving wheels and valve gear to protect the moving parts from blown sand in the Namib desert.〔〔 A final two locomotives of the same type were delivered, both built in 1910. Their engine numbers are not known.〔 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 West African 2-8-0T」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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