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Hi Andre,

As you mention, three of these locos, NG44-46, were sold to the CF Moçamedes in April 1951. They were apparently purchased for the "Ramal da Chibía" a 600mm gauge branch line running from Sá da Bandeira (now known as Lubango) to Chiange (116km) which was opened in two stages in 1949 and 1953. It is believed they were also used on the "mainline" (Moçamedes (now Namibe) to Sá da Bandeira), which was regauged to 1067mm in the mid 1950s. They were possibly retired about this time, being replaced on the branch by 60 Series 0-8-2T locomotives released by the regauging. They were certainly dumped at Sá da Bandeira by 1969, and looked as if they had been in that condition for some time. The branch itself was closed in 1970. In later years at least, the 0-8-2Ts ran coupled to the NG9 tenders, thus giving extra wood and water capacity.

They were numbered 111-113 on the CFM, but seemingly not in order, and from my examination of the locos I would suggest (but not confirm) that they were in fact ex SAR NG46/44/45.

I ran this info past John Middleton before sending to you and he narrowed down the date of sale (1951 to April 1951), and confirmed their id as NG44-46.

Regards Peter

Included here by André Kritzinger (talk) 14:02, 28 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]