In 1930 the South African Railways placed fourteen Class 19B steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain wheel arrangement in service. Thoy were built by Berliner Maschinenbau AG, the former L. Schwartzkopff, and numbered in the range from 1401 to 1414. One of them, no. 1410, was later reboilered with a Watson Standard no. 1A boiler and reclassified to Class 19BR.
See also the Winipedia article on the South African Class 19B 4-8-2. |