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The Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-2 of 1860 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. In 1860 the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company took delivery of eight broad gauge tender locomotives with a 0-4-2 wheel arrangement, the first tender locomotives to work in South Africa. They were acquired for service on the Cape Town-Wellington line, which was still under construction. In 1872 these locomotives came onto the roster of the Cape Government Railways, which took over the operation of all railways in the Cape of Good Hope. They remained in service on this line while it was being converted to dual broad-and-Cape gauges from around 1872 and were only retired in 1881, when sufficient Cape gauge locomotives were in service.〔Espitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1943). ''The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter I - The Period of the 4 ft. 8½ in. Gauge''. South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, June 1943. pp. 437-440.〕 ==The Cape Town-Wellington line== The first railway line in the Cape of Good Hope, the Cape Town-Wellington line, was built by the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company. After having made representations to the Cape Colonial Government in 1853 and 1855, the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company was granted approval, by Act no. 10 of 29 June 1857, to construct a long railway between Cape Town and Wellington, via Stellenbosch. The company appointed Messrs. Pickering as contractors for the construction of the line.〔 The Act specified, amongst others, that: * The locomotives for the railway should have only four wheels, since this would require less room inside buildings and would only need an turntable. * A locomotive, complete with apparatus and appendages, should only weigh . * Each locomotive have to be shopped, cleaned and, if necessary, repaired after every three days of work. * Double the number of locomotives as required by the volume of traffic, should therefore be kept in use. * At least twelve locomotives should be ordered, at a nominal figure of £800 each.〔 Since progress in locomotive design had already advanced beyond the Cape Government's specifications of 1857, the maximum weight and wheel arrangement specifications were, wisely, ignored by the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company. Even the contractor's small was more than double the specified weight, exceeding the limit by .〔 As in England, it was decided to use broad gauge. The first sod was turned on 31 March 1859 by Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape Colony from 1854 to 1861, but the planned railhead at Wellington was only reached on 4 November 1863, after the contractors, Messrs. E. & J. Pickering, had been dismissed in October 1861 and the construction was taken over by the Company itself.〔〔〔The South African Railways - Historical Survey. Editor George Hart, Publisher Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd., Published c. 1978, pp. 4, 8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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