South African type XD tender
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(H.M. Beatty)
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The South African type XD tender was a steam locomotive tender from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.
The Type XD tender first entered service in 1901, as tenders to the British-built of the three versions of 6th Class 4-6-0 Tenwheeler type steam locomotive which were acquired by the Cape Government Railways in that year. These locomotives were designated Class 6H on the South African Railways in 1912.[1][2][3]
Type XD tenders were built in 1901 and 1902 by Neilson, Reid and Company.[1][2][3]
The original 6th Class locomotive and tender was designed in 1892 by H.M. Beatty, the Locomotive Superintendent of the Cape Government Railways (CGR) Western System at the time, at its Salt River works in Cape Town. The Type XD tender first entered service in 1901, as tenders to 21 new 6th Class locomotives which were built for the CGR by Neilson, Reid.[1][2][3]
Characteristics
Locomotives
In the South African Railways (SAR) years, tenders were numbered for the engines they were delivered with. In most cases, an oval number plate, bearing the engine number and often also the tender type and locomotive class, would be attached to the rear end of the tender. During the classification and renumbering of locomotives onto the SAR roster in 1912, no separate classification and renumbering list was published for tenders, which should have been renumbered according to the locomotive renumbering list.[4]
Three locomotive classes were delivered new with Type XD tenders, built by the same manufacturer. Bearing in mind that tenders could and did migrate between engines, these tenders should have been numbered in the SAR number ranges as shown.[1][2][3][4]
- 1901: CGR 6th Class of 1901 (Neilson's), SAR Class 6H, numbers 614 to 634.[2][3][4]
- 1902: CGR 6th Class of 1902, SAR Class 6J, numbers 635 to 648.[2][3][4]
- 1902: CGR 8th Class of 1902, SAR Class 8, first batch, numbers 1069 to 1071.[1][4]
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