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South African Class 24 2-8-4

Index South African Class 24 2-8-4

The South African Railways Class 24 2-8-4 of 1949 is a steam locomotive. [1]

71 relations: Addo, Eastern Cape, Arlington, Free State, Barberton, Mpumalanga, Bartolomeu Dias, Beaufort West, Beestekraal, Bloemfontein, Breyten, Brits, North West, Bultfontein, Cairns, Calvinia, Cape Town, Columbus Castings, Cookhouse, De Aar, Eddystone, Pennsylvania, General Steel Castings, George, Western Cape, Hermon, South Africa, Hutchinson, Northern Cape, Janney coupler, Kaapmuiden, Kalbaskraal, Karasburg, Keetmanshoop, Kimberley, Northern Cape, Kirkwood, Eastern Cape, Knysna, Komatipoort, Kuranda Scenic Railway, Marquard, Middelburg, Mpumalanga, Modimolle, Mookgophong, Mossel Bay, Nigel, Gauteng, North British Locomotive Company, Orkney, North West, Outeniqua Choo Tjoe, Pennsylvania, Piston valve (steam engine), Port Elizabeth, Porterville, Western Cape, Prince Alfred Hamlet, Saldanha, Western Cape, Selati Game Reserve, Soekmekaar, Somerset East, South African Class 19C 4-8-2, ..., South African Class 32-000, South African Class 6 4-6-0, South African Class 7 4-8-0, South African Class GC 2-6-2+2-6-2, South African Class GCA 2-6-2+2-6-2, South African type MX tender, South African type MY tender, South West Africa, Springs, Gauteng, Theunissen, Transnet Freight Rail, Vaalwater, Vierfontein, Vredefort, Walschaerts valve gear, Walvis Bay, Winburg, Windhoek, Wolseley, Western Cape, Zebediela, 2-8-4. Expand index (21 more) »

Addo, Eastern Cape

Addo is a town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Arlington, Free State

Arlington is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Barberton, Mpumalanga

Barberton is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, which has its origin in the 1880s gold rush in the region.

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Bartolomeu Dias

Bartolomeu Dias (Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz; c. 1450 – 29 May 1500), a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer.

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Beaufort West

Beaufort West (Afrikaans: Beaufort-Wes) is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa.

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Beestekraal

Beestekraal is a town in Bojanala District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa.

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Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein (Afrikaans and Dutch "fountain of flowers" or "blooming fountain"; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.

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Breyten

Breyten is a small farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa and is situated at the foot of Klipstapel, the highest point on the watershed between the westward flowing Vaal River system and the eastward flowing Olifants and Komati River systems.

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Brits, North West

Brits is a large town situated in a fertile, citrus, vegetable and grain-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province of South Africa.

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Bultfontein

Bultfontein is a town in the Free State province of South Africa with a total population of about 23,400 people.

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Cairns

Cairns is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Calvinia

Calvinia is a regional town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa named after the French religious reformer Jean Calvin.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Columbus Castings

Buckeye Steel Castings was a Columbus, Ohio steelmaker best known today for its longtime president, Samuel P. Bush, who was the grandfather of President George H.W. Bush and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush.

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Cookhouse

Cookhouse (Kookhuis) is a small village located in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, some north of Port Elizabeth and east of Somerset East, on the west bank of the Great Fish River.

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De Aar

De Aar is a town in the Northern Cape, South Africa.

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Eddystone, Pennsylvania

Eddystone is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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General Steel Castings

The General Steel Castings Corporation was a steel casting corporation in the United States established in 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Company, and American Steel Foundries.

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George, Western Cape

George is a city in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Hermon, South Africa

Hermon is a village 22 km north of Wellington and 8 km from Porseleinberg.

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Hutchinson, Northern Cape

Hutchinson is a village and former railway junction in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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Janney coupler

The Janney Coupler is a semi-automatic railway coupler.

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Kaapmuiden

Kaapmuiden (Cape Mouth) is a small farming town situated at the confluence of the Kaap and Crocodile Rivers in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

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Kalbaskraal

Kalbaskraal is a settlement in the Swartland Local Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Karasburg

Karasburg (ǀNomsoros, old name Kalkfontein, literally "carst spring") is a town of 4,000 inhabitants in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia and the district capital of the Karasburg electoral constituency.

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Keetmanshoop

Keetmanshoop is a city in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, lying on the Trans-Namib Railway from Windhoek to Upington in South Africa.

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Kimberley, Northern Cape

Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Kirkwood, Eastern Cape

Kirkwood is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Knysna

Knysna (probably from a Khoikhoi word meaning "ferns") is a town with 51,078 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and is part of the Garden Route.

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Komatipoort

Komatipoort is a town situated at the confluence of the Crocodile and Komati Rivers in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.

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Kuranda Scenic Railway

The Kuranda Scenic Railway is the name for the railway line that runs from Cairns, Queensland, Australia, to the nearby town of Kuranda.

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Marquard

Marquard is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that serves Winburg in the northwest.

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Middelburg, Mpumalanga

Middelburg is a large farming and industrial town in the South African province of Mpumalanga.

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Modimolle

Modimolle, formerly Nylstroom, is a town located near the southern edge of the Waterberg Massif in Limpopo province, South Africa.

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Mookgophong

Mookgophong, also known by its former name, Naboomspruit, is a town in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

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Mossel Bay

Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 130,000 people on the Southern Cape (or Garden Route) of South Africa.

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Nigel, Gauteng

Nigel is a small gold mining town in Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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North British Locomotive Company

The North British Locomotive Company (NBL, NB Loco or North British) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company (Atlas Works), Neilson, Reid and Company (Hyde Park Works) and Dübs and Company (Queens Park Works), creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe and the British Empire.

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Orkney, North West

Orkney is a gold mining town situated in the Klerksdorp district of the North West province, South Africa.

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Outeniqua Choo Tjoe

The Outeniqua Choo Tjoe was the last remaining continually-operated passenger steam train in Africa, ending operation in June 2009.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Piston valve (steam engine)

Piston valves are one form of valve used to control the flow of steam within a steam engine or locomotive.

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Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth or The Bay (iBhayi; Die Baai) is one of the largest cities in South Africa; it is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, east of Cape Town.

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Porterville, Western Cape

Porterville is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa.

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Prince Alfred Hamlet

Prince Alfred Hamlet is a small town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Saldanha, Western Cape

Saldanha, also known as Saldanha Bay, is a town of 21,636 people, located north of Cape Town on the northern shore of Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Selati Game Reserve

Selati Game Reserve, is situated between the towns of Gravelotte and Mica, north of Nelspruit, in the Limpopo province of South Africa, the reserve has an area of about 30000 Ha.

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Soekmekaar

Soekmekaar (also known as Morebeng) is a small, rural town in the Molemole Local Municipality of the Capricorn District Municipality of the Limpopo province of South Africa.

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Somerset East

Somerset East (Somerset-Oos) is a town in the Blue Crane Route Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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South African Class 19C 4-8-2

The South African Railways Class 19C 4-8-2 of 1935 was a steam locomotive.

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South African Class 32-000

The South African Railways Class 32-000 of 1959 was a diesel-electric locomotive.

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South African Class 6 4-6-0

The South African Railways Class 6 4-6-0 of 1893 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.

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South African Class 7 4-8-0

The South African Railways Class 7 4-8-0 of 1892 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.

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South African Class GC 2-6-2+2-6-2

The South African Railways Class GC 2-6-2+2-6-2 of 1924 was an articulated steam locomotive.

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South African Class GCA 2-6-2+2-6-2

The South African Railways Class GCA 2-6-2+2-6-2 of 1927 was an articulated steam locomotive.

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South African type MX tender

The South African type MX tender was a steam locomotive tender.

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South African type MY tender

The South African type MY tender was a steam locomotive tender.

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South West Africa

South West Africa (Suidwes-Afrika; Zuidwest-Afrika; Südwestafrika) was the name for modern-day Namibia when it was subsumed under South Africa, from 1915 to 1990.

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Springs, Gauteng

Springs is a main place, and formerly independent town, in the east of Ekurhuleni in the Gauteng province of South Africa.

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Theunissen

Theunissen is a small town that has the only wine estate, the Theunissen Wine Farm, in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Transnet Freight Rail

Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet.

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Vaalwater

Vaalwater is a small town situated on the Mokolo River in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

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Vierfontein

Vierfontein is a settlement in Fezile Dabi District Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Vredefort

Vredefort is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa with cattle, peanuts, sorghum, sunflowers and maize being farmed.

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Walschaerts valve gear

The Walschaerts valve gear is a type of valve gear invented by Belgian railway mechanical engineer Egide Walschaerts in 1844 used to regulate the flow of steam to the pistons in steam engines.

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Walvis Bay

Walvis Bay (Afrikaans Walvisbaai, German Walfischbucht or Walfischbai, all meaning "Whale Bay") is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies.

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Winburg

Winburg is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Windhoek

Windhoek (Windhuk; ǀAiǁgams; Otjomuise) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia.

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Wolseley, Western Cape

Wolseley is a small town in the upper Breede River Valley region of the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Zebediela

Zebediela is a group of villages in Capricorn District Municipality of Limpopo Province, South Africa.

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2-8-4

Under the Whyte notation, a 2-8-4 is a steam locomotive that has one unpowered leading axle, usually in a leading truck, followed by four powered and coupled driving axles, and two unpowered trailing axles, usually mounted in a bogie.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Class_24_2-8-4

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