South African Class NG15 2-8-2
In 1931 three narrow gauge locomotives with a 2-8-2 Mikado wheel arrangement, similar in design to their existing Class Hd and Class NG5 locomotives, were acquired for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in South West Africa. More were purchased for the Otavi and for the Tsumeb Copper Corporation during the subsequent years, eventually bringing the total number of these locomotives up to twenty-one by 1958.
When the narrow gauge Otavi Railway was regauged to Cape gauge in 1960, all twenty-one locomotives were taken over by the South African Railways. They were classified as Class NG15 and transferred to the Eastern Cape for further service on the narrow gauge line from Port Elizabeth to Avontuur.
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