UR G class

  • Uganda Railway G (GA) class
  • Kenya-Uganda Railway GA (EB) class
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Builder Nasmyth, Wilson and Company
Build date 1914
Total produced 7
Specifications
Configuration 4-8-0
Gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
Career
Operators
Class
  • UR: G class / GA class
  • KUR: GA class / EB class
Numbers 121–127
Disposition All scrapped
[1]

The UR G class, known later as the UR / KUR GA class, and later still as the KUR EB 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). The seven members of the class entered service on the UR in 1914, and continued in service after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.[2]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Ramaer 1974, pp. 37, 52.
  2. ↑ Ramaer 1974, pp. 37, 44.

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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