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unusual facts about CGR 0-4-0ST 1874


CGR 0-4-0ST 1874

In an Uitenhage centenary publication the first three construction locomotives on the Midland System are described as two engines named "Pioneer" and "Little Bess" that each weighed 14 tons, and a third engine named "Mliss" after "one of Bret Harte's charming heroines", that was imported about the same time and that weighed only eight tons.


CGR 0-4-0ST 1881 Coffee Pot

Here a bridge had to be constructed across the Orange for the line from Colesberg to be continued to Springfontein.


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