Talk:CGR 2-6-0ST 1902

Hunslet works numbers, ex works dates and service information
The following is the contents of an email received from John Middleton on 17 November 2013:

From: John Nicholas Middleton To: Kol Andre H Kritzinger Cc: Bruno Martin ; The Lake's ; Leith Paxton Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:31 PM Subject: Re: CGR 2-6-0ST of 1904

Hi Andre

These entered service from early 1902 to early 1904, you have the basic info but, all were moved away from Table Bay by SAR and worked at Durban, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein, but to my knowledge no photos of them at any of these locations have yet surfaced. Anyway, details are below.

18       HE 766                Ex works 12.1901        To Durban, scrapped Durban Works 2/1935 19       HE 767                Ex works 12.1901        To Port Elizabeth, scrapped Uitenhage Works 5/1930 20       HE 768                Ex works 1.1902                To Durban, scrapped Durban Works 2/1935 21       HE 769                Ex works 3.1902                To Port Elizabeth, scrapped Uitenhage Works 6/1929 22       HE 770                Ex works 3.1902                To Port Elizabeth, scrapped Uitenhage Works 6/1929 23       HE 815                Ex works 6.1903                To Bloemfontein Works Shunter c1912, scrapped there 9/1932 24       HE 816                Ex works 6.1903                To Durban, scrapped Durban Works 2/1935 25       HE 817                Ex works 7.1903                To Durban, scrapped Durban Works 2/1935 26       HE 818                Ex works 7.1903                To Port Elizabeth, scrapped Uitenhage Works 1/1932 27       HE 819                Ex works 9.1903                To Bloemfontein Works Shunter, scrapped there 1/1935 28       HE 820                Ex works 10.1903        To Durban, scrapped Durban Works 1/1935

The Hunslet engine register shows them as delivered with rectangular numberplates reading "T.B.H. No. 18" etc.

Note that although all these were scrapped, the almost identical (it had 3'4" wheels rather than the 3'3" of the TB locos) HE 790 of 1902 which was latterly with ESCOM survives to this day.

Regards

John

Posted here for reference purposes. André Kritzinger (talk) 20:16, 29 November 2013 (UTC)