UR GD class

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]

Uganda Railway GD class Kenya-Uganda Railway GD (EB3) class East African Railways 24 class
Type and origin Power type Steam Builder Vulcan Foundry Nasmyth, Wilson and Company Build date 1923–1930 Total produced 62
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 4-8-0 Gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ^3⁄8 in)
Career 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
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The first batch of GD class engines entered service on the UR in 1923, and further batches entered service progressively, including after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.[3]

See also

• Rail transport in Kenya
• Rail transport in Uganda

References

Notes

1. Ramaer 1974, pp. 44, 52, 84.
2. Ramaer 1974, p. 44.
3. Ramaer 1974, p. 52.

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.

External links

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