Uganda Railway GC class
Kenya-Uganda Railway GC (EB2) class
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderNasmyth, Wilson and Company
Serial numberL 1350 – L 1351
Build date1921
Total produced2
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte4-8-0
Gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Career
Operators
Class
  • UR: GC class
  • KUR: GC class / EB2 class
Numbers119–120
DispositionBoth scrapped
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The UR GC class, later known as the UR / KUR EB2 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). Its design was very similar to that of the earlier UR G class and UR GB class, save that the two members of the GC class were equipped with piston valves and a Robinson superheater.[2]

The GC class entered service on the UR in 1921, and continued in service after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926. The two GC class locomotives were heavily worked as trial engines, and then written off in 1934 after proving the value of superheating. With the exception of the KUR ED1 class shunting engines, all further steam engines ordered by the KUR and its successor, the East African Railways (EAR), were superheated.[3][4]

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References

Notes

  1. ^ Ramaer 1974, pp. 42–43, 52, 84.
  2. ^ Ramaer 1974, p. 43.
  3. ^ Ramaer 1974, pp. 43, 44, 52.
  4. ^ Patience 1996, p. 27.

Bibliography

  • Durrant, A E; Lewis, C P; Jorgensen, A A (1981). Steam in Africa. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 978-0-600-34946-4. OCLC 9014344. OL 15088099M. Wikidata Q111363476.
  • 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, Wikidata Q111363477
  • Patience, Kevin (1996). Steam Twilight: The last years of steam on Kenya Railways. Bahrain: Kevin Patience. OCLC 37615720.
  • Ramaer, Roel (1974). Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. David & Charles Locomotive Studies. Newton Abbot, North Pomfret: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-6437-6. OCLC 832692810. OL 5110018M. Wikidata Q111363478.
  • Ramaer, Roel (2009). Gari la Moshi: Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. Malmö: Stenvalls. ISBN 978-91-7266-172-1. OCLC 502034710. Wikidata Q111363479.
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