UR GC class

  • Uganda Railway GC class
  • Kenya-Uganda Railway GC (EB2) class
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Builder Nasmyth, Wilson and Company
Serial number L 1350 – L 1351
Build date 1921
Total produced 2
Specifications
Configuration 4-8-0
Gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
Career
Operators
Class
  • UR: GC class
  • KUR: GC class / EB2 class
Numbers 119–120
Disposition Both scrapped
[1]

The UR GC class, later known as the UR / KUR EB2 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company in Patricroft, Salford, England, for the Uganda Railway (UR). Its design was very similar to that of the earlier UR G class and UR GB class, save that the two members of the GC class were equipped with piston valves and a Robinson superheater.[2]

The GC class entered service on the UR in 1921, and continued in service after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926. The two GC class locomotives were heavily worked as trial engines, and then written off in 1934 after proving the value of superheating. With the exception of the KUR ED1 class shunting engines, all further steam engines ordered by the KUR and its successor, the East African Railways (EAR), were superheated.[3]

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ Ramaer 1974, pp. 42–43, 52, 84.
  2. ↑ Ramaer 1974, p. 43.
  3. ↑ Ramaer 1974, pp. 43, 44, 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

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