The first of 35
4th Class4-6-0 tank-and-tender locomotives with
Joy valve gear on the mainlines of all three systems.[4][5]
Two new 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the private Kowie Railway which is under construction from
Port Alfred to
Grahamstown:
^Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - "Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909."
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abcdeHolland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England:
David & Charles. pp. 32–37, 80–83, 108.
ISBN978-0-7153-5382-0.
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abC.G.R. Numbering Revised, Article by Dave Littley, SA Rail May–June 1993, pp. 94–95.