UR GD class
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Power type | Steam |
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Build date | 1923–1930 |
Total produced | 62 |
Specifications | |
Configuration | 4-8-0 |
Gauge | 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) |
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The UR GD class, known later as the UR / KUR EB3 class, and later still as the EAR 24 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built for the Uganda Railway (UR). It was a larger and modified version of the earlier, experimental, UR GC class.[2]
The first batch of GD class engines entered service on the UR in 1923, and further batches entered service progressively, including after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.[3]
See also
- Rail transport in Kenya
- Rail transport in Uganda
References
Notes
- ↑ Ramaer 1974, pp. 44, 52, 84.
- ↑ Ramaer 1974, p. 44.
- ↑ Ramaer 1974, p. 52.
Bibliography
- Durrant, A E; Lewis, C P; Jorgensen, A A (1981). Steam in Africa. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 0600349462.
- Patience, Kevin (1976). Steam in East Africa: a pictorial history of the railways in East Africa, 1893-1976. Nairobi: Heinemann Educational Books (E.A.) Ltd. OCLC 3781370.
- Ramaer, Roel (1974). Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. David & Charles Locomotive Studies. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK; North Pomfret, Vt, USA: David & Charles. ISBN 0715364375.
- Ramaer, Roel (2009). Gari la Moshi: Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. Malmö, Sweden: Stenvalls. ISBN 9789172661721.
External links
Media related to UR GD class at Wikimedia Commons
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