South African Class 8A 4-8-0

The South African Railways Class 8A 4-8-0 of 1902 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal. In 1902 the Imperial Military Railways placed forty Cape 8th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon locomotives in service, which the Central South African Railways designated Class 8-L1 later that year. Because wartime conditions had caused a shortage of locomotives in the Second Boer War, the military railways ordered them from two Scottish makers in 1901, twenty from Neilson, Reid and Company and twenty from Sharp, Stewart and Company, numbered 421 to 440. They were the last locomotives ordered under military administration in the Transvaal and Orange Free State. In 1912 the South African Railways renumbered them 1092 to 1131 as Class 8A. Number 428 carried the name of Joseph Chamberlain on its tender.