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PE Image – South African Railways narrow gauge steam locomotive class NG15 No 147 working an up goods train on the Avontuur branch east of The Heights, Cape Province, South Africa.

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South African Railways narrow gauge steam locomotive class NG15 No 147 working an up goods train on the Avontuur branch east of The Heights, Cape Province, South Africa.
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This digitised image was obtained from a 120 size black and white film using a Pentaz 6x7mm camera. Photographed on 8 July, 1974.

South African Railways narrow gauge steam locomotive class NG15 No 147 working an up goods train on the Avontuur branch east of The Heights, Cape Province, South Africa.

In 1931 three narrow gauge locomotives with a 2-8-2 Mikado wheel arrangement were acquired for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in South West Africa and were similar in design to their existing Class Hd and Class NG5 locomotives. More were purchased for the Otavi and for the Tsumeb Copper Corporation during the subsequent years, eventually bringing the total number of these locomotives up to twenty-one by 1958.

When the narrow gauge Otavi Railway was regauged to Cape gauge in 1960, all twenty-one locomotives were taken over by the South African Railways. They were classified as Class NG15 and transferred to the Eastern Cape for further service on the narrow gauge line from Port Elizabeth to Avontuur.

In 1958 five more of these locomotives, once again built by Henschel, were delivered to the Tsumeb Copper Corporation, numbered in the range from TC1 to TC5, for use by the SAR in terms of an agreement between the SAR and the Corporation.

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