North British Locomotive Company   Works No 21495 – SAR 805

This locomotive was built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow in 1917 for the South African Railways (SAR).

for details of class 16B locomotives go to Class 16B

At some time in the 1930s the locomotive was reboilered and it was the reclassified as a class 16CR engine.

Following its withdrawal from service the locomotives was fitted with a dummy boiler which had been fabricated to look like the original Belpaire boiler which it had originally been equipped when introduced as a class 16B locomotive. It was also fitted with an original original wide Hendrie cab which was found dumped at the old Pretoria Mechanical Workshops.

The locomotive was then displayed on a plinth outside the new Johannesburg station in March 1974. The Minister of Transport, the Hon. B.J. Schoeman, unveiled the commemorative plaque during a ceremony on 1 July 1974 which was fitting as he had previously served as a fireman on the locomotive from 1931 to 1933.

In the early 1990s, the locomotive was removed from Johannesburg station to be exhibited in the Outeniqua Transport Museum at George.

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