UR GD class

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Uganda Railway GD class
Kenya-Uganda Railway GD (EB3) class
East African Railways 24 class
No. 2443 at Tabora depot, Tanzania, in 1968
No. 2443 at Tabora depot, Tanzania, in 1968
hideType and origin
Power typeSteam
Builder
Build date1923–1930
Total produced62
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Configuration:
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 • Whyte4-8-0
Gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
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Operators
  • Uganda Railway (UR)
  • → Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR)
  • → East African Railways (EAR)
Class
  • UR: GD class
  • KUR: GD class / EB3 class
  • EAR: 24 class
Numbers
  • UR: 162–217
  • KUR: 162–223
  • EAR: 2401–2462
[1]

The UR GD class, known later as the UR / KUR EB3 class, and later still as the EAR 24 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built for the Uganda Railway (UR). It was a larger and modified version of the earlier, experimental, UR GC class.[2]

Service history[]

The first batch of GD class engines entered service on the UR in 1923.[3] Heavier rail had been laid on the UR main line in preparation for their arrival.[4] Further batches entered service progressively, including after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.[3]

The class was the most numerous of all the KUR, and later East African Railways (EAR), classes in service, and became the maids of all work. Nearly 60 years after the class's introduction, the class was still in use on Kenya Railways (KR), one of the EAR's successors.[4]

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References[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Ramaer 1974, pp. 44, 52, 84.
  2. ^ Ramaer 1974, p. 44.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Ramaer 1974, p. 52.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Patience 1996, p. 27.

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.
  • Patience, Kevin (1996). Steam Twilight: The last years of steam on Kenya Railways. Bahrain: Kevin Patience. OCLC 37615720.
  • 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.

External links[]

Media related to UR GD class at Wikimedia Commons

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