TR GSL class

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Tanganyika Railway GSL class
Portrait of TR GSL 50
Portrait of TR GSL 50
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderSentinel Waggon Works
Build date1929–1931
Total produced8
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte0-4-0T
Gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Career
Operators
  • Tanganyika Railway (TR)
  • → East African Railways (EAR)
ClassGSL class
Numbers
  • TR: 1–8 / 51–58
  • EAR: 51–58
DispositionAll scrapped
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The TR GSL class was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge 0-4-0T geared steam locomotives built by Sentinel Waggon Works in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, for the Tanganyika Railway (TR).

The eight members of the GSL class entered service on the TR between 1929 and 1931. They were operated by the TR until it was succeeded by the East African Railways (EAR) in 1948. They then served with the EAR until the mid 1950s.[2]

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Notes[]

  1. ^ Ramaer 1974, pp. 60, 62.
  2. ^ Ramaer 1974, p. 60.

Bibliography[]

  • Durrant, A E; Lewis, C P; Jorgensen, A A (1981). Steam in Africa. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 0600349462.
  • Patience, Kevin (1976). Steam in East Africa: a pictorial history of the railways in East Africa, 1893-1976. Nairobi: Heinemann Educational Books (E.A.) Ltd. OCLC 3781370.
  • Ramaer, Roel (1974). Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. David & Charles Locomotive Studies. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK; North Pomfret, Vt, USA: David & Charles. ISBN 0715364375.
  • Ramaer, Roel (2009). Gari la Moshi: Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. Malmö, Sweden: Stenvalls. ISBN 9789172661721.

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