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South African Railways steam locomotive class 19D No 2756 on a down mixed to Grahamstown near Goodwins Kloof, Cape Province, South Africa.
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This digitised image was obtained from a 120 size black and white film employing a Pentaz 6x7mm camera. Photographed on 11 July, 1974.
South African Railways steam locomotive class 19D No 2756 on a down mixed to Grahamstown near Goodwins Kloof, Cape Province, South Africa.
In between 1937 and 1949 two hundred and thirty-five Class 19D steam locomotives with a 4-eight-2 Mountain wheel arrangement were placed into service. In the 1951 to 1953 period a additional thirty-three had been built for other railway operations such as the Rhodesian and Angolan railways and the Nkana and Wankie mines.
The Class 19D four-eight-two steam locomotive was the final development of the Class 19 series of locomotives. At the request of Colonel F.R. Collins, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1922 to 1929, the original basic design of the Class 19 was accomplished in the late 1920s by Test Engineer M.M. Loubser, himself later to serve as the CME from 1939 to 1949. The final development was carried out in 1937 by W.A.J. Day, CME from 1936 to 1939. The Class 19D was built in batches by a number of locomotive makers in Germany, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom.
The very first forty have been constructed in Germany in 1937, twenty by Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen, numbered in the variety from 2506 to 2525, and twenty by the Borsig Lokomotiv Werke in Hennigsdorf, Berlin, numbered in the range from 2526 to 2545.
In 1938 a further ninety-five locomotives have been ordered, constructed by three manufacturers. Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia constructed fifteen, numbered in the variety from 2626 to 2640, Krupp built forty, numbered in the range from 2641 to 2680, and Borsig constructed forty, numbered in the variety from 2681 to 2720.
Locomotive creating was interrupted by Globe War II and post-war locomotive procurement saw German suppliers being replaced by British ones. In 1947 the initial fifty post-war Class 19D locomotives have been delivered by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns of Darlington, England, numbered in the variety from 2721 to 2770.
The final batch of fifty Class 19D locomotives for the SAR had been delivered in 1949 by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow, Scotland, numbered in the range from 3321 to 3370.
Among 1951 and 1953 Henschel and Son built twenty-1 a lot more for the Rhodesia Railways (now the Country named Zimbabwe) and altogether twelve far more were built for the Caminho de Ferro de Benguela in Angola and for the Nkana and Wankie mines.