Namaqualand 0-4-2IST Caledonia

Specifications
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	0-4-2IST
• UIC	B1n2t
Driver	2nd coupled axle
Gauge	2 ft 6 in (762 mm) Namaqualand
Loco weight	9 LT 10 cwt (9,652 kg)
Fuel type	Oil
Firebox:
• Type	Round-top
Boiler:;
• Type	Domeless
Safety valve	Ramsbottom
Cylinders	Two
Cylinder size	7 in (178 mm) bore; 12 in (305 mm) stroke
Valve gear	Morton
Couplers	Buffers-and-chain

Type and origin
Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	Dick, Kerr & Company
Builder	Dick, Kerr & Company
Build date	1904

Namaqualand 0-4-2IST *Caledonia*
Namaqualand 0-4-2IST Caledonia
	Cape Copper Company 0-4-2IST Caledonia, c. 1904
Power type
Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	Dick, Kerr & Company
Builder	Dick, Kerr & Company
Build date	1904
Configuration:;
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	0-4-2IST
• UIC	B1n2t
Driver	2nd coupled axle
Gauge	2 ft 6 in (762 mm) Namaqualand
Loco weight	9 LT 10 cwt (9,652 kg)
Fuel type	Oil
Firebox:
• Type	Round-top
Boiler:;
• Type	Domeless
Safety valve	Ramsbottom
Cylinders	Two
Cylinder size	7 in (178 mm) bore; 12 in (305 mm) stroke
Valve gear	Morton
Couplers	Buffers-and-chain
Operators
Career
Operators	Cape Copper Company; South African Copper Company; O'okiep Copper Company
Number in class	1
Numbers	11
Official name	Caledonia
Delivered	June 1904
First run	1904

The Cape Copper Company 0-4-2IST Caledonia of 1904 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.

In 1904, a single 0-4-2 IST locomotive was placed in service by the Cape Copper Company as a shunting engine at O'okiep in Namaqualand in the Cape of Good Hope.^[1]

Namaqualand Railway

The Namaqualand Railway was constructed between 1869 and 1876 by the Cape Copper Mining Company, restructured as the Cape Copper Company in 1888. The line from Port Nolloth on the West Coast to the copper mines around O'okiep was initially exclusively mule-powered, but in 1871 the first steam locomotives named John King and Miner were acquired by the mining company. They were followed between 1886 and 1888 by three [[Namaqualand 0-4-0WT Condenser|0-4-0 WT condensing locomotives]] and between 1890 and 1901 by seven 0-6-2 Clara Class and Scotia Class Mountain type tender locomotives.^[1]^[2]

The Caledonia

In 1904, a single 0-4-2 IST locomotive named Caledonia was acquired from Dick, Kerr & Company of Kilmarnock in Scotland. On a saddle-tank locomotive the water tank is mounted astride the locomotive's boiler, while on the much less common inverted saddle-tank locomotive, the boiler is nested in the water tank. The locomotive was an oil-burner and used outside mounted Morton's valve gear. Apart from being named, it was also numbered 11 on the Cape Copper Company locomotive roster.^[1]

The locomotive was landed at Port Nolloth in June 1904. On 28 June it entered service on trial running and on 20 July 1904 it was allocated to O'okiep, where it relieved the mules from shunting work. At times it appears to have been returned to Port Nolloth to work there, probably as the workload at the port demanded.^[1]

Illustration

Caledonia shunting at Port Nolloth, c. 1905

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bagshawe, Peter (2012). Locomotives of the Namaqualand Railway and Copper Mines (1st ed.). Stenvalls. pp. 25–27, 40. ISBN 978-91-7266-179-0.
^ The South African Railways - Historical Survey. Editor George Hart, Publisher Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd., Published c. 1978, p. 16.