South African Class 6E 4-6-0

The South African Railways Class 6E 4-6-0 of 1898 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Orange Free State. In 1898 the Oranje-Vrijstaat Gouwerment-Spoorwegen ordered its final six new Cape 6th Class locomotives, placed with Sharp, Stewart and Company. Three, designated 6th Class L3, were delivered and numbered 96 to 98 before British forces invaded in the Second Boer War, and the other three arrived numbered 370 to 372 on the Imperial Military Railways. They had larger cabs than their predecessors and Type XC1 bogie tenders. In 1912 the South African Railways renumbered them 598 to 603 and designated them Class 6E.