Table Bay Harbour 0-4-0ST

Table Bay Harbour 0-4-0ST
CGR 0-4-0ST 1881
South African 0-4-0ST 1881

300px Table Bay Harbour's no. 14, later CGR no. 14, then SAR no. 014, in Port Elizabeth c. 1930

Type and origin ♠ - 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) Brunel gauge ♥ 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge Power type Steam Designer Black, Hawthorn & Co. Builder Black, Hawthorn & Co. Chapman and Furneaux Hawthorn Leslie and Company Serial number See table Build date 1881-1904

Specifications Configuration 0-4-0ST (Four-coupled) Driver axle 2nd coupled axle Gauge 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) Brunel 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape Coupled dia 34 in (864 mm) Wheelbase 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) Length:  • Over couplers  • Over Bufferbeams 16 ft 1 in (4,902 mm) Height 9 ft 7 in (2,921 mm) Fuel type Coal Fuel capacity 10 long hundredweight (0.5 t) Water cap Boiler:  • Pitch 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm)  • Type Domeless  • Diameter outside  • Tube plates 8 ft (2,438 mm)  • Small tubes 70:  • Firebox type Round-top Boiler pressure 130 psi (896 kPa) Safety valve Ramsbottom Firegrate area 5 sq ft (0.46 m2) Heating surface 303 sq ft (28.1 m2)  • Tubes 274 sq ft (25.5 m2)  • Firebox 29 sq ft (2.7 m2) Cylinders Two Cylinder size ♠ 11 in (279 mm) bore 17 in (432 mm) stroke ♥ 10 in (254 mm) bore 17 in (432 mm) stroke Valve gear Stephenson Couplers Bell link-and-pin

Performance figures Tractive effort 4,875 lbf (21.69 kN) @ 75%

Career Operators Table Bay Harbour Board Cape Government Railways South African Railways Number in class 16 Numbers 1, 4-17, 29 Delivered 1881-1904 First run 1881

The Table Bay Harbour 0-4-0ST of 1881 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.

Between 1881 and 1904, sixteen 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotives entered shunting and construction service at the Table Bay Harbour in Cape Town. Three of them were built to Brunel gauge for breakwater construction, while the rest were all built to Cape gauge for use as dock shunters. They were taken onto the Cape Government Railways roster in 1908 and, when the South African Railways was established, thirteen were still in stock.

Manufacturers

Sixteen 0-4-0 saddle-tank locomotives were acquired by the Table Bay Harbour Board in Cape Town between 1881 and 1904, for use in construction and shunting work at the Table Bay Harbour. They were delivered in five batches, from three manufacturers.

• Three locomotives were delivered from Black, Hawthorn & Co. in 1881. Two of them were built to 7 ft ¹⁄₄ in (2,140 mm) Brunel gauge, for service as breakwater construction engines on the Table Bay Harbour improvement project, and were numbered 4 and 5. The project had been started in 1860 and involved the excavation of two basins and the construction of breakwater piers. The third locomotive, no. 6, was built to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge, for service as dock shunter at Table Bay Harbour.
• Between 1890 and 1893, they were followed by four more locomotives from the same manufacturer. Three of them, numbered 1, 7 and 9, were Cape gauge for use as dock shunters, while the fourth one, no. 8, was Brunel gauge for use on breakwater construction.
• Two more locomotives followed from Black, Hawthorn in late 1895 or early 1896, both Cape gauge and numbered 10 and 11.
• During 1896, the firm of Black, Hawthorn was taken over by Chapman and Furneaux, who delivered another six of these locomotives in 1897 and 1898, all built to Cape gauge and numbered in the range from 12 to 17.
• In 1904, a single 0-4-0ST locomotive, no. 29, was delivered from Hawthorn Leslie and Company. Although it is not known, it is possible that it was built to the same design as the aforementioned fifteen locomotives since, when Chapman and Furneaux closed, its drawings, patterns and goodwill were bought by Hawthorn, Leslie.

Service

Table Bay Harbour Board

By the time the broad gauge Table Bay Harbour construction railway was closed in 1904, no. 4 was no longer reflected in the Table Bay Harbour Board's locomotive register. There is a possibility that it could have been transferred to East London Harbour, where Brunel gauge was still in use for breakwater construction at the time, only being removed c. 1909. This has, however, not been confirmed.

The other two, no. 5 and no. 8, were possibly then regauged to Cape gauge and also put to work as dock shunters in Table Bay Harbour. This has also not been confirmed and, since no. 5 was scrapped in 1913 while no. 8 was sold as scrap to Vaggens & Company in May 1907, regauging was probably not done.

Cape Government Railways

By 1908, no. 1 was already either scrapped or sold. The remaining thirteen locomotives were all taken onto the Cape Government Railways (CGR) roster in 1908. They retained their original Harbour Board numbers while in CGR service.

South African Railways

When the Union of South Africa was established on 31 May 1910, the three Colonial government railways (CGR, Natal Government Railways and Central South African Railways) were united under a single administration to control and administer the railways, ports and harbours of the Union. Although the South African Railways and Harbours came into existence in 1910, the actual classification and renumbering of all the rolling stock of the three constituent railways required careful planning and was only implemented with effect from 1 January 1912.

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Chapman & Furneaux-built no. 11, c. 1912

By 1912, thirteen of these locomotives survived, but they were considered obsolete and excluded from the South African Railways (SAR) classification and renumbering program. While twelve of them were listed in the notes to the renumbering lists as having been excluded, no. 15 was not mentioned. They were initially staged in a shed in Cape Town, but appear to have been placed back in service, since a number of them survived into the mid-1930s before being scrapped.

Obsolete locomotives on the SAR had the numeral "0" prefixed to their existing numbers, although on these engines it appears that new number plates to that effect were never affixed to them. In the SAR era, no. 09 was transferred to Mosselbaai Harbour and two, no. 010 and no. 014, went to Port Elizabeth Harbour. No. 15, which was not mentioned in the SAR renumbering lists of 1912, was sold to Lourenco Marques Forwarding Agency in Mozambique in 1913 and employed in the Lourenco Marques docks. The rest remained in service in Table Bay Harbour.

Works numbers and disposition

The numbers, builders, works numbers, dates ordered, original gauge, SAR numbers and disposition of the Table Bay Harbour Board 0-4-0ST of 1881 are listed in the table.

Table Bay Harbour Board 0-4-0ST of 1881

No.	Builder	Works no.	Order date	Original gauge	SAR no.	Sold or scrapped
4	Black, Hawthorn	642	1881-04	Brunel		1904 c. Scrapped
5	Black, Hawthorn	646	1881-07	Brunel	05	1913-05 Salt River
6	Black, Hawthorn	648	1881-07	Cape	06	1913-05 Salt River
1	Black, Hawthorn	1005	1889-12	Cape		1908 c. Scrapped or sold
7	Black, Hawthorn	1021	1890-08	Cape	07	1935-10 Salt River
8	Black, Hawthorn	1079	1892-12	Brunel		1907-05 Sold to Vaggens
9	Black, Hawthorn	1083	1893-03	Cape	09	1916-12 Uitenhage
10	Black, Hawthorn	1128	1895-10	Cape	010	1935-10 Uitenhage
11	Black, Hawthorn	1129	1895-10	Cape	011	1935-10 Salt River
12	Chapman & Furneaux	1149	1897-03	Cape	012	1929-03 Salt River
13	Chapman & Furneaux	1152	1897-05	Cape	013	1929-02 Salt River
14	Chapman & Furneaux	1168	1898-07	Cape	014	1938-08 Uitenhage
15	Chapman & Furneaux	1169	1898-07	Cape		1913-03 Sold to LM
16	Chapman & Furneaux	1170	1898-07	Cape	016	1929-03 Salt River
17	Chapman & Furneaux	1171	1898-07	Cape	017	1935-10 Salt River
29	Hawthorn Leslie	2567	1904	Cape	029	1935-10 Salt River

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