UR GD class
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The UR GD class, known later as the UR / KUR EB3 class, and later still as the EAR 24 class, was a class of
1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built for the Uganda Railway (UR). It was a larger and modified version of the earlier, experimental, UR GC class.[2]
Service history
The first batch of GD class engines entered service on the UR in 1923.Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.[3]
The class was the most numerous of all the KUR, and later
Kenya Railways (KR), one of the EAR's successors.[4]
See also
- History of rail transport in Tanzania
- Rail transport in Kenya
- Rail transport in Uganda
References
Notes
- ^ Ramaer 1974, pp. 44, 52, 84.
- ^ Ramaer 1974, p. 44.
- ^ a b Ramaer 1974, p. 52.
- ^ a b Patience 1996, p. 27.
Bibliography
- Durrant, A E; Lewis, C P; Jorgensen, A A (1981). Steam in Africa. London: 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, 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: Wikidata Q111363478.
- Ramaer, Roel (2009). Gari la Moshi: Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. Malmö: Stenvalls. Wikidata Q111363479.
External links
Media related to UR GD class at Wikimedia Commons
