EAR 13 class

The East African Railways 13 class was a class of 18 steam locomotives with a 4-8-2T wheel arrangement and a gauge of 1,000 mm, built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, Scotland, for the East African Railways. They were built in 1952 and entered service in 1953. Because they had a tendency to derail when running in reverse, they were later converted into 4-8-4T locomotives, using bogies salvaged from the EAR 50 class Garratt locomotives, which were then being withdrawn. Number 1315 stood for many years as an exhibit in the Nairobi Railway Museum, but in 1996 Kenya Railways engineers checked the boiler records of the museum exhibits, removed it because they needed a replacement stationary boiler for their main works, and scrapped the rest of the locomotive.