The South African Railways Class 8C 4-8-0 of 1903 was a Mastodon type steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal Colony, a second batch of thirty Cape 8th Class engines that the Central South African Railways ordered and placed in service in 1903 as its Class 8-L3. The railways placed the order with Neilson, Reid and Company, but that firm amalgamated with Dübs and Company and Sharp, Stewart and Company into the North British Locomotive Company while the engines were being built, so all thirty, numbered 471 to 500, were delivered as built by NBL at the former Neilson, Reid Hyde Park shops. They became Class 8C in 1912 and worked branch lines and shunting until the 1970s.
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As a result, the thirty locomotives of the second batch, numbered in the range from 471 to 500, were all delivered as built by NBL at the Hyde Park shops of the former Neilson, Reid.
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The South African Railways Class 8C 4-8-0 of 1903 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal Colony.
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In 1903, soon after the establishment of the Central South African Railways, a second batch of thirty Cape 8th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon steam locomotives were ordered and placed in service as the Class 8-L3, immediately following upon a previous order in that same year for a variation on the same locomotive type.
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The South African Railways Class 8C 4-8-0 of 1903 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal Colony.
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As a result, the thirty locomotives of the second batch, numbered in the range from 471 to 500, were all delivered as built by NBL at the Hyde Park shops of the former Neilson, Reid.
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The South African Railways Class 8C 4-8-0 of 1903 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in Transvaal Colony.
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