TR NZ class

  • Tanganyika Railway NZ class
  • East African Railways 22 class
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Builder Nasmyth, Wilson and Company
Serial number 1050–1053
Build date 1915
Total produced 4
Specifications
Configuration 4-8-0
Gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
Career
Operators
Class
  • TR: NZ class
  • EAR: 22 class
Numbers
  • TR: 1095–1098 / 200–203
  • EAR: 2201–2504
Disposition All scrapped
[1]

The TR NZ class, later known as the EAR 22 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built in 1915 by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company in Patricroft, Salford, England. The class had been ordered by the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway (NGSR) for operation on its network in the Dominion of Nizam, better known as the Hyderabad State, in India. However, the locomotives in the class were never delivered to the NGSR, and, in the end, served their entire working lives in Tanganyika, East Africa.[2]

Service history

In March 1916, while the four members of the class were on their way to India, they were commandeered to assist in the British invasion of German East Africa, where they entered service with the Tanganyika Railway (TR), still carrying their NGSR lettering and numbers 1095–1098. In the early 1930s, they were officially classified as the TR's NZ class (the NZ being a reference to "Nizam"), and renumbered as 200–203.[3]

The class was later operated by the TR's successor, the East African Railways (EAR), as its 22 class, numbers 2201–2204. In the late 1940s, two of them were transferred to the Southern Province Railway, an isolated network developed to support the ultimately unsuccessful Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme. Nos 2202 and 2204 were scrapped in 1952, and 2201 and 2203 in 1956.[4]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Ramaer 1974, pp. 40, 54-55.
  2. ↑ Ramaer 1974, p. 40.
  3. ↑ Ramaer 1974, pp. 40, 54.
  4. ↑ Ramaer 1974, pp. 54–55.

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

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