September 2005: Photo courtesy of Jacque & John Wepener.
13 May 2006 Photo: from André Kritzinger's Album
September 2005: Photo courtesy of Jacque & John Wepener.
13 May 2006 Photo: from André Kritzinger
The picture was taken by Piet Redelinghuys and published in the October 2008 issue of the Steam in Action newsletter.
SAR Class 19D No 3356.
This locomotive was built by North British Locomotive Co as works no 26076 in 1948.
The 19D plinthed in Vryburg has a so-called "Vanderbilt" tender which has a cylindrical water tank and six-wheeled "Buckeye" bogies. In 1901, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, whose great-grandfather founded the New York Central Railroad, invented a cylindrical tender which was soon adopted by a number of American railroads with oil-burning locomotives. Compared to rectangular tenders, cylindrical Vanderbilt tenders were stronger, lighter, and held more fuel in relation to surface area. In South Africa the design was used to carry water & coal for the locomotive.
Before WW II, 135 engines of Class 19D were delivered by Krupp, Borsig and Skoda. Immediately after the war, a further 50 Class 19D's were supplied by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn Ltd. These were similar to the pre-war 19D, except they were fitted with vacuum brakes. The final order of 50 engines of this class was from North British Locomotive Co in 1949 and fitted with a new type of tender known as the Vanderbilt as mention above.
The versatile locomotives saw extensive service on every system of the SAR and were amongst the last steam locomotives to be withdrawn from active service.
Google Earth view of the plinthed 19D.
Google Earth view of the plinthed 19D.
The following photo's of this locomotive were posted by Kevin Wilson-Smith to the "Friends of the Rail" Forum in July 2008.
Photo: Kevin Wilson-Smith 2008
Squatters were actually sleeping under the tender - hence the banner and card board sections.
Photo: Kevin Wilson-Smith 2008
Photo: Kevin Wilson-Smith 2008
Photo: Kevin Wilson-Smith 2008
Photo: Kevin Wilson-Smith 2008
Does anybody know the history of this Train and the few monuments around it. What it was used for....
ReplyDeleteThis locomotive was the regular engine of driver Willem Koen. At that stage stationed at Mafeking. It worked between Mafeking and Warrenton. Must mention that locomotive shined from buffer to buffer. Attie van der Westhuizen and myself did our practical drivers training on her. She was a good steamer and pleasure to work on.
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