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 3ft6in (1,067mm) 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."
1 2 3 4 5 Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol.1: 1859–1910 (1sted.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp.32–37, 80–83, 108. ISBN978-0-7153-5382-0.
1 2 C.G.R. Numbering Revised, Article by Dave Littley, SA Rail May–June 1993, pp. 94–95.
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