The first official trip was made from Durban to Pinetown on 7 January 1889, after which the Havelock was placed in service on the Durban-Cato Ridge section.
The locomotives were placed in service on the new Natal mainline from Durban to Pietermaritzburg and worked it further and further as construction progressed, to Pinetown by 4 September 1878, to Camperdown by 1 October 1880 and to Pietermaritzburg by 1 December 1880.
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