This locomotive was built by Dübs and Company in Glasgow in 1899 for the Natal Government Railways (NGR) where it carried the number NGR 133.
It later became SAR number 196 in 1912 following the establishment of the South African Railways (SAR).
Whilst in service with the SAR it was fitted with a Belpaire boiler.
The locomotive is one of the twenty-one that was modified in 1926 by removing the trailing bissel bogie and coal bunker, shortening the main frame and adding a tender to increase the coal and water capacity. This was done as the SAR was short of suitable shunting locomotives. As a result of the modification the locomotive was reclassified as a class 17 engine and renumbered 1418.
In 1933 the locomotive was sold by the SAR to Daggafontein Mines.
In 1967 the locomotive moved to Amcoal’s Springfield Colliery.
It was taken out of service in 1980 having spent 47 years of its working life in industrial service.
The locomotive was then placed on a plinth at Masons Mill in Pietermaritzburg.
In 2011 the locomotive returned to Britain on a ship from Richard Bay in South Africa to Bristol Portbury Docks after which it was transported by road to Woking in Surrey.
It is now on display at the entrance to the Mizens Railway which is a miniature railway at Woking.
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