South African Class NG2 0-4-2T

Class NG2 with a saddle-tank, as built

Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	Dickson Manufacturing Company
Builder	Dickson Manufacturing Company
Serial number	978 & 1019
Build date	1897 & 1898
Total produced	2
Rebuilder	South African Railways
Number rebuilt	2 to 0-4-2

Specifications
Configuration	0-4-2ST
Driver	2nd coupled axle
Gauge	600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) narrow
Coupled dia.	24 ¹⁄₂ in (622 mm)
Trailing dia.	20 ¹⁄₂ in (521 mm)
Wheelbase	10 ft 4 ¹⁄₂ in (3,162 mm)
• Coupled	4 ft (1,219 mm)
Length:
• Over couplers	18 ft 10 in (5,740 mm)
• Over beams	17 ft 1 in (5,207 mm)
Width	6 ft 3 ¹⁄₂ in (1,918 mm)
Height	8 ft 7 in (2,616 mm) over cab 8 ft 5 in (2,565 mm) over chimney
Frame type	Bar
Axle load	4 LT (4,064 kg)
• 1st coupled	4 LT (4,064 kg)
• 2nd coupled	4 LT (4,064 kg)
• Trailing	3 LT (3,048 kg)
Adhesive weight	8 LT (8,128 kg)
Loco weight	11 LT (11,180 kg)
Fuel type	Coal
Fuel capacity	2,150 lb (975 kg)
Water cap	200 imp gal (909 l) as built
Firebox type	Round-top
• Firegrate area	5.83 sq ft (0.542 m²)
Boiler:
• Pitch	3 ft 8 ¹⁄₄ in (1,124 mm)
• Diameter	2 ft 2 ⁷⁄₈ in (683 mm)
• Tube plates	6 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (2,045 mm)
• Small tubes	60: 1 ¹⁄₂ in (38 mm)
Boiler pressure	130 psi (896 kPa)
Safety valve	Ramsbottom (reboilered)
Heating surface	191 sq ft (17.7 m²)
• Tubes	158 sq ft (14.7 m²)
• Firebox	33 sq ft (3.1 m²)
Cylinders	Two
Cylinder size	7 in (178 mm) bore 10 in (254 mm) stroke
Valve gear	Stephenson
Valve type	Slide
Couplers	Bell link-and-pin

Performance figures
Power output	106 hp (79 kW)
Tractive effort	1,950 lbf (8.7 kN) @ 75%

Career
Operators	Rand Mines Limited South African Railways
Class	Class NG2
Number in class	2
Numbers	NG93-NG94
Delivered	1897 & 1898
First run	1897
Withdrawn	1936

The South African Railways Class NG2 0-4-2T of 1897 was a narrow gauge steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal.

Between 1897 and 1901, Arthur Koppel, acting as agent, imported a number of Dickson-built 0-4-2ST narrow gauge saddle-tank steam locomotives for mines on the Witwatersrand. In 1915, when an urgent need arose for additional locomotives in German South West Africa during the First World War, two of the 0-4-2ST locomotives were purchased second-hand by the South African Railways, for use in that territory. They were later classified as Class NG2.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Manufacturer

Between 1897 and 1901, several narrow gauge 0-4-2 saddle-tank steam locomotives, built by Dickson Manufacturing Company of Scranton in Pennsylvania shortly before it merged with seven other manufacturing firms to form the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1901, were delivered to various gold mines on the Witwatersrand by Arthur Koppel, acting as importing agent.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Characteristics

The engines had bar frames, with the cylinders arranged outside the frames and actuated by Stephenson valve gear. Their saddle-tanks had a 200 imperial gallons (909 litres) water capacity.^[1]

South African Railways purchase

In 1915, while the military campaign was being waged against German forces in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika (DSWA) during the First World War, an urgent need arose for additional locomotives, for use on the narrow gauge lines in that territory. The South African Railways (SAR) therefore bought two of these Dickson-built 0-4-2ST locomotives second-hand, numbered them NG93 and NG94 and placed them in service in DSWA.^[3]

The identity of these locomotives is difficult to prove, but the SAR diagram book for the Class NG2 gives dimensions which limit the possibilities to only three of the known Koppel imports. Two of these, Dickson works numbers 978 of 1897 and 1019 of 1898, had been delivered to the Lancaster Gold Mine in Roodepoort. That mine closed in June 1913 and the company was wound up in early 1915. It therefore seems a good probability that it were these two locomotives which the SAR bought for service in DSWA.^[2]^[4]

A third locomotive with the same dimensions, for which no ownership history is known, was Dickson works no. 1102 of 1899. It is possible, but unproven, that this locomotive also went to Lancaster Gold Mine, since it was of identical dimensions to the other two.^[2]

Gauge

Although they were eventually classified as two foot narrow gauge locomotives along with the rest of the South African narrow gauge locomotive fleet, they were actually constructed to a 600 millimetre gauge.^[5]

Historically, the actual two feet narrow gauge rail spacing depended on whether or not the track was laid by a metricised country. German-built narrow gauge lines in DSWA were therefore 600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) gauge, while those in South Africa, built to Imperial standards, were 2 ft (610 mm) gauge.^[6]

In practice, however, the two gauges are still being treated as one and the same by, for example, the British Military. The same applied in South Africa, as part of the British Commonwealth at the time. The ³⁄₈ inch (10 millimetres) difference was considered as insignificant and narrow gauge locomotives regularly migrated between the lines laid to German standards in South West Africa (SWA) and those laid to Imperial standards in South Africa.^[6]

Service

No. NG93 after rebuilding, without the saddle tanks

The two locomotives remained in SWA after the war. In 1920, they were both reboilered by the SAR, using boilers supplied by Henschel and Son, and in the process they lost their saddle tanks. Since this modification effectively converted them to tankless tank locomotives, they were equipped with timber-bodied two-axle tenders to carry their water and additional coal.^[2]^[3]^[5]

Classification

A system of grouping narrow gauge locomotives into classes was only introduced on the SAR somewhere between 1928 and 1930. At that point, the two locomotives were classified as Class NG2.^[4]

Disposal

The Class NG2 locomotives spent their last working years on the SAR working at the Usakos workshops in SWA, until they were withdrawn from service in 1936. Engine no. NG94 was sold to Igusi Timbers in Rhodesia and remained in service there until c. 1961. Engine no. NG93 was sold to the Zebediela citrus estates in northern Transvaal in 1937, where it was finally withdrawn from service by 1943.^[2]^[3]

References

1 2 3 Espitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1945). The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter VII - South African Railways (Continued). South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, October 1945. p. 781.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Information supplied by John N. Middleton
1 2 3 4 5 Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 100–101. ISBN 0869772112.
1 2 South African Railways and Harbours Narrow Gauge Locomotive Diagram Book, 2'0" Gauge, S.A.R. Mechanical Dept. Drawing Office, Pretoria, 28 November 1932
1 2 Unsourced drawing: Class N.G.2 – Locos. 93 & 94. Drawing ref 23082-3, letter d/d 21-4-1915, Ref 1/3523/6
1 2 Design and Maintenance Guide 09 – Permanent Way, Defence Estate Organisation, July 1997, Ministry of Defence, London : The Stationery Office, pp. 66-73. ISBN 0-11-772881-0.

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