South African Class 6A 4-6-0

The South African Railways Class 6A 4-6-0 of 1896 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1896 and 1897 the Cape Government Railways placed a second batch of fifty 6th Class 4-6-0 locomotives in service, forty-one on its Western System, six on its Midland System and three on its Eastern System. They were built by Dubs and Company and Sharp, Stewart and Company between 1895 and 1897, and had slightly larger boilers than the first order and the new Type YC tenders. Four went on loan to the Imperial Military Railways in the Second Boer War, and one was sold to the Benguela Railway in Angola in 1907. In 1912 the remaining forty-nine became Class 6A.