South African Class C2 4-6-4T

The South African Railways Class C2 4-6-4T of 1896 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Colony of Natal. In 1896, after George William Reid succeeded William Milne as Locomotive Superintendent of the Natal Government Railways, he rebuilt number 21, one of the batch of 1882 built by Robert Stephenson and Company, to the first known 4-6-4T Baltic type wheel arrangement, later designated Class H. The frame was extended to carry a trailing bogie and the bunker was enlarged, so that the locomotive could run equally well chimney or bunker forward on shuttle service on the South Coast line, where no turntable or triangle was available. In 1912 it became the only Class C2 engine on the South African Railways, was renumbered 86, and was withdrawn from service in 1931.