South African Class 16B 4-6-2

The South African Railways Class 16B 4-6-2 of 1917 was a steam locomotive. In November 1917 the railways placed ten Class 16B locomotives with a 4-6-2 Pacific wheel arrangement in passenger train service. The design was by D.A. Hendrie, the railways' chief mechanical engineer, and the ten engines, numbered 802 to 811, were built in 1917 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, Scotland. When newer locomotives such as the Class 16D replaced them they were given less glamorous passenger duties until, by the 1940s, they were in suburban and transfer service. They were withdrawn between 1975 and 1976, and one locomotive that had been reboilered was returned to its original Class 16B condition.