South African Dock Shunter 0-4-0ST

Career
Career
Operators	Cape Colony Irrigation Department; South African Railways
Class	Harbour shunter
Number in class	2
Numbers	PWD 1 & 2
Official name	SAR Thebus & Stormberg
Delivered	1903
First run	1903 (PWD), 1916 (SAR)

Performance figures
Performance figures
Tractive effort	5,454 lbf (24.26 kN) @ 75%

South African Dock Shunter 0-4-0ST
South African Dock Shunter 0-4-0ST
	Cape gauge
Coupled dia.	33 in (838 mm)
Wheelbase	5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)
Length:;
• Over couplers	20 ft 7 in (6,274 mm)
• Over beams	17 ft (5,182 mm)
Height	10 ft 2 in (3,099 mm)
Frame type	Plate
Axle load	7 LT 18 cwt (8,027 kg) average
Adhesive weight	15 LT 16 cwt (16,050 kg)
Loco weight	15 LT 16 cwt (16,050 kg)
Fuel type	Coal
Fuel capacity	5 long hundredweight (0.3 t)
Water cap.	400 imp gal (1,820 L)
Firebox:
• Type	Round-top
• Grate area	5.25 sq ft (0.488 m2)
Boiler:;
• Pitch	5 ft 2 in (1,575 mm)
• Tube plates	8 ft 7 in (2,616 mm)
• Small tubes	58: 2 in (51 mm)
Boiler pressure	150 psi (1,034 kPa)
Heating surface:
• Firebox	32.5 sq ft (3.02 m2)
• Tubes	201.5 sq ft (18.72 m2)
• Total surface	234 sq ft (21.7 m2)
Cylinders	Two
Cylinder size	10 in (254 mm) bore; 16 in (406 mm) stroke
Valve gear	Stephenson
Couplers	Johnston link-and-pin

The South African Railways Dock Shunter 0-4-0ST of 1903 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.

Two

ST locomotives named Thebus and Stormberg, which were originally built for the Irrigation Department of the Public Works Department of the Cape of Good Hope in 1903, were acquired by the South African Railways in 1916 for use as harbour shunting engines. In railway service they were named instead of being classified and numbered.^[1]^[2]

Origin

During the First World War, when the South African Railways (SAR) experienced an acute shortage of locomotive power, it acquired a number of locomotives from private concerns and other government departments.[1]^[2]

The Public Works Department (PWD) of the Cape Province had two locomotives, used by the Irrigation Department as dam construction engines, which it could spare. These two were donated to the SAR by the Department of Water Affairs in 1916. Numbered l and 2 by Water Affairs, they were

ST locomotives which had been built by Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited in 1903.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Names

The locomotives were not classified or numbered by the SAR and were named instead. The first was named Thebus after the town Teebus on the line between Stormberg and Rosmead on the Cape Midland System, while the second was named Stormberg after the town of that name on the Cape Eastern System mainline from Springfontein to East London.^[1]^[2]

Service

The engine Thebus spent most of its SAR service life as dock shunter at the

Port Elizabeth Harbour.^[2]

The engine Stormberg spent most of its SAR service life as a dock shunter in East London Harbour until it was eventually semi-retired and used to test the steam-heating equipment on passenger coaches. During the Second World War, it was transferred to Cape Town for use as a construction locomotive during the expansion works at Table Bay Harbour. From there it went to Mosselbaai to once again serve as harbour shunting engine until it was transferred to Germiston in Transvaal, where it was retired and placed in storage for a number of years.^[1]^[2]

By then, the engine Stormberg was sporting a balloon-type spark arrester on its chimney and a headlight mounted on a shelf attached to the front of the smokebox.^[4]

Preservation

In 1964, the engine Stormberg was refurbished at Germiston before being taken back to East London, where it was plinthed at East London station. It finally ended up as an exhibit in the Outeniqua Transport Museum in George. At some stage between being in storage at Germiston and becoming a museum exhibit, the spark arrester, headlight and headlight mount were removed.^[1]^[4]

The engine Thebus was presumably scrapped.^[1]

Illustration

The engine Thebus in service, c. 1920
The engine Stormberg testing steam-heating equipment, c. 1920

References

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ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8
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ISBN 0869772112
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^ Hardy, Clive. Hudswell Clarke & Company Ltd Locomotive Works List, (1st ed.).
^ ^a ^b ^c Soul of A Railway, System 7, Western Transvaal, based in Johannesburg, Part 7. Germiston Steam and Diesel Running Sheds (2nd section) by Les Pivnic. Caption 1. (Accessed on 7 April 2017)

[Holland_2-1] 
ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8
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[Paxton-Bourne-2] 
ISBN 0869772112
.

[Hardy-3] Hardy, Clive. Hudswell Clarke & Company Ltd Locomotive Works List, (1st ed.).

[Soul_of_a_Railway_7-7-4] Soul of A Railway, System 7, Western Transvaal, based in Johannesburg, Part 7. Germiston Steam and Diesel Running Sheds (2nd section) by Les Pivnic. Caption 1. (Accessed on 7 April 2017)

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Cape gauge Tender engines	CGR 1st Class 2-6-0 1876 BP CGR 1st Class 2-6-0 1876 Kitson CGR 1st Class 2-6-0 1879 CGR 1st Class 2-6-0 1891 CGR 1st Class 4-4-0 CGR 1st Class 4-4-0TT CGR 2nd Class 2-6-2TT CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1883 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1884 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1889 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1898 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1901 CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1903 CGR 4th Class 4-4-2 CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1880 CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1882 CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1882 Joy CGR 4th Class 4-6-0TT 1884 CGR 5th Class 4-6-0 1890 CGR 5th Class 4-6-0 1891 NGR Havelock NGR Class I SAR Class Exp 1 SAR Class Exp 2 SAR Class Exp 3 SAR Class Exp 4 SAR Class Exp 5 SAR Class Exp 6 SAR Class S SAR Class S1 SAR Class S2 SAR Class 1 SAR Class 1A SAR Class 1B SAR Class 2 SAR Class 2C SAR Class 3 SAR Class 3A SAR Class 3B SAR Class 4 SAR Class 4A SAR Class 5 SAR Class 5A SAR Class 5B SAR Class 6 SAR Class 6A SAR Class 6B SAR Class 6C SAR Class 6D SAR Class 6E SAR Class 6F SAR Class 6G SAR Class 6H SAR Class 6J SAR Class 6K SAR Class 6L SAR Class 6Y SAR Class 6Z SAR Class 7 SAR Class 7A SAR Class 7B SAR Class 7C SAR Class 7D SAR Class 7E SAR Class 7F SAR Class 8 SAR Class 8A SAR Class 8B SAR Class 8C SAR Class 8D SAR Class 8E SAR Class 8F SAR Class 8R SAR Class 8X SAR Class 8Y SAR Class 8Z SAR Class 9 SAR Class 10 SAR Class 10A SAR Class 10B SAR Class 10C SAR Class 10D SAR Class 11 SAR Class 12 SAR Class 12A SAR Class 12B SAR Class 13 SAR Class 14 SAR Class 14A SAR Class 14B SAR Class 14C 1st SAR Class 14C 2nd SAR Class 14C 3rd SAR Class 14C 4th SAR Class 15 SAR Class 15A SAR Class 15B SAR Class 15C SAR Class 15CA SAR Class 15E SAR Class 15F SAR Class 16 SAR Class 16A SAR Class 16B SAR Class 16C SAR Class 16D SAR Class 16DA 1928 SAR Class 16DA 1930 SAR Class 16E SAR Class 17 SAR Class 18 SAR Class 19 SAR Class 19A SAR Class 19B SAR Class 19C SAR Class 19D SAR Class 20 SAR Class 21 SAR Class 23 SAR Class 24 SAR Class 25 SAR Class 25NC SAR Class 26 SAR Katanga SWA 2-8-0
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2' 6" gauge	Cape Copper John King & Miner Cape Copper Britannia Cape Copper Caledonia Cape Copper Clara Cape Copper Condenser Cape Copper Scotia Namaqua Copper Pioneer Walvis Bay 2-4-2T Hope
2' & 600mm gauges	ACR Class NG-G16A CGR NG 0-4-0T CGR NG 0-6-0T CGR NG 4-6-2T CGR Type A 2-6-4T CGR Type C 0-4-0T NGR Class N 4-6-2T SAR Dutton SAR NG 0-4-0T SAR Class NG1 SAR Class NG2 SAR Class NG3 SAR Class NG4 SAR Class NG5 SAR Class NG6 SAR Class NG7 SAR Class NG8 SAR Class NG9 SAR Class NG10 SAR Class NG-G11 SAR Class NG-G12 SAR Class NG-G13 SAR Class NG-G14 SAR Class NG15 SAR Class NG-G16 SWA Class Ha SWA Class Hb SWA Class Hc SWA Class Hd SWA Jung SWA Zwillinge

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2' gauge Diesel-electric	SAR Class 91-000
Cape gauge Diesel-hydraulic	SAR Class 61-000
Cape gauge Electro-diesel	Spoornet Class 38-000