South African Class 7D 4-8-0

The South African Railways Class 7D 4-8-0 of 1915 was a steam locomotive. Between 1899 and 1903 the Rhodesia Railways placed 52 Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon steam locomotives in service, and one more was obtained from the Imperial Military Railways in March 1901. In May 1915 five of these were sold to the South African Railways and renumbered, four of them to Class 7D and one erroneously to Class 7B, while the former Imperial Military Railways locomotive was also sold back to South Africa and also erroneously designated Class 7D. The fourth and fifth batches of the Rhodesian class, ten engines each, were built by the North British Locomotive Company and delivered in 1903.