UR G class

The UR G class, known later as the UR / KUR GA class, and later still as the KUR EB class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company in Patricroft, Salford, England, for the Uganda Railway (UR). The seven members of the class entered service on the UR in 1914, and continued in service after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.[2]

Uganda Railway G (GA) class
Kenya-Uganda Railway GA (EB) class
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderNasmyth, Wilson and Company
Build date1914
Total produced7
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte4-8-0
Gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
Career
Operators
Class
  • UR: G class / GA class
  • KUR: GA class / EB class
Numbers121–127
DispositionAll scrapped
[1]

See also

References

Notes
  1. Ramaer 1974, pp. 37, 52.
  2. Ramaer 1974, pp. 37, 44.

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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