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Photographic Quiz
updated 14th November 2008
We have noticed a growing trend whereby ever more people contact us to provide additional technical information etc. for many of the items that are featured on our web site. We have a large archive which we are just beginning to scratch the surface of. For people who really know what they are looking at we thought we would provide an opportunity for you to test your knowledge and for you to contribute. We know what the attached locomotive is - do you? Let us know by submitting the form at the bottom of the page...

We will publish a new photograph every few months or so, providing good clear images of specific locomotives. We invite visitors to our site to comment. After a while, we will release the results of this photographic quiz.  Previous photos are listed underneath the latest photo shown below.

If you think you know what the picture is let us know....

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What is the above item?

PREVIOUS PHOTO;

theknotts
answer: NRZ 15A 352

albangg16
answer: Think it s the Rhodesia Railways Royal Train in 1947,loco is a 15th class,wonderful photo. There is a photo of this train in Durrants Garratt Locomotives of the World. Keep up the good work. Alan barnes.

locolewis
answer: A correction to the credit for the night photo of the last s'bound run of the original Blue Train. It was photographed by Charlie Lewis!

1MATTJAM
answer: The Rhodesian part of the royal tour that went up there, with I think is a 16.

k.winter
answer: It looks like the Royal standard on the front of the engine - King George VI & Queen Elizabeth's (and Princesses Elizabeth's & Margaret's Royal visit to South Africa in 1947. My parents used to have a silent 8mm film of the visit - not sure whether we still have it! Kim Winter

And the [best] answer is...

batters
answer: One of the four original Beyer Garratts, 273, delivered to Rhodesia Railways in 1940 as the Class 15 - the first four of an eventual fleet of 74! The occasion here is the 1947 Royal Tour to Southern Africa with locos 271-4 turned out in a very dark blue scheme to haul the RT during the Rhodesian leg of this prestigious visit by British Royalty. The first four 15th Class were easily distinguishable by their rounded water tanks opposed to the sharp edges of subsequent deliveries; although not visible in this particular shot, the initial four had cut-away bunkers. The Garratts were renumbered 350-3 and by the end of their working lives the only Garratt still in its entirely original form was 350 which has been statically preserved at Kadoma in Zimbabwe's Midlands. In preservation it has returned to being 271. See the late Dusty Durrant's 1997 picture book "The Smoke That Thunders" for photographic coverage of the changed appearance of these four Garratts in their years of RR service.


AND THE PREVIOUS PHOTO....

undertakersa

answer: It could be a Poppet-valved 15E

jbelstead

answer: The last southbound steam-powered Blue Train, with Class 25 No. 3443 in charge, waters at Orange River in September 1972

chapelbond

answer: 25NC taking water at Orange River with the old Blue Train

albangg16

answer: This is the last southbound Blue Train at Orange River in September 1972.Sorry to cheat but this photo is in The Great Steam Trek.A very nice photo.

momsmith

answer: The last Northbound "Old Blue Train" being hauled by a 25NC steam locomotive.

1MATTJAM

answer: Class 25nc-Kimberly with the old Blue Train Set.

batters from crossroadsschool

answer: 25NC on the front of the Blue Train set that became "The Drakensberg" with the building by UCW of new trainsets in 1972.

albangg16

answer: It s the last steam hauled southbound Blue Train at Orange River in September 1972,this photo is in the book The Great Steam Trek so I ve rather cheated;sorry!. best Wishes Alan Barnes

gk49

answer: class23 heading the Blue Train taking water in (BLOEMFONTEIN ?)

garyb

answer: Old blue train final one steam pulled at Orange River , South Bound worked by 25NC 3414 Carol in 1972

fjoubert

answer: 25nc

aidan

answer: Last south bound steam powered blue train with 25NC 3443 taking water at Orange River September 1972 Photograph by A Jorgenson

And the answer is...

Last south bound steam powered blue train with 25NC 3443 taking water at Orange River September 1972 Photograph by A Jorgenson.

 


AND THE PREVIOUS PHOTO....

batters
10th Class double-header entering Mafeking - British Royal Tour 1947

aidan
Pair of Rhodesia Railways 10th classes hauling the royal train in 1947 at Mafeking station

patchet
Engines are RR 10th Class 243 and ??? at Mafeking.  Train is that provided by SAR for the visit of Prince George to the Rhodesias.  White Train went through to Bulawayo after which mainly RR stock was used.  I think the date is March 25, 1934.

1MATTJAM
The royal train returning from a Rhodesian part of the tour, Mafikeng. Not sure what class of loco it is?

nigelsowler
Royal Train at Mafeking 1947.  Lead engine is a Rhodesian Railways 12th class by the look of the number one of the third batch built by North British in 1928

cvieira3
Two RR CLASS 12 hauling the royal train .front engine is number 243

And the correct answer is.....

Rhodesian Railways 10th class locomotives nos: 243 & 102 at Mafeking on the Royal Train 16h30 Thursday 17th April 1947 bound for Bulawayo.


AND THE PREVIOUS PHOTO....

Photo Quiz 3

What people thought;

henkdebruin
answer: Class 10C

dswerbeloff
answer: Class 10C

momsmith
answer: A Class 10C photographed at Cape Town

rmglay
answer: Class 10

pmicenko
answer: Class 10B probably on the East Rand as the track is electrified and the electric suburban train in the background is in old Imperial Brown livery The hedge in the foreground and the 3000 gallon water tank would seem to indicate Springs Station. My understanding is that a few of the 10 B's were allocated to Springs shed.

Has anyone noticed the light stand behind the engines dome. Very ornate. I seem to recall some of these around Welgedag station. 

1MATTJAM
answer: 10CR (bell couplers) somewhere in the Transvaal.

dylan.knott
answer: Class 5B or 5R. 

fjoubert
answer: Class 10.

And the correct answer is.....

patchet
answer: Engine 738, SAR Class 10, CSAR Class 10, No 660 at Germiston Station. (I cheated, it's the same picture as Holland, v1, p130.)


AND THE PREVIOUS PHOTO....

Photo Quiz 2

What people thought;

Class 19C
Fjoubert

domeless Class 19D
Dswerbeloff

A domeless 19D with short tender
Momsmith

Domeless 19D
Aidan

I would hazard a guess at one of Capital Park's 19D locos heading back towards Pretoria, just near the Hatebeespoort Dam bridge at Meerhof, hauling a sand train from De Moot.
Dennis Moore

Domeless 19D with short tender.
Dylan Knott

It is a domeless 19D and looks very much like the northern exit from Mara poorte through the Soutpansberg
pmicenko


And the correct answer is.....

Class 19D with domeless boiler


AND THE PREVIOUS PHOTO....

Photo Quiz 1

What people thought;

Class 4AR Zeerust line
momsmith

Class 4AR- the rotary reversing rod and the absence of front steps to facilitate access to the piston valves. Location is difficult as the prickly vegetation in the foreground puts it in a drier  area of the country. Since the 4A's were a small class in numbers and seemed to be all at Millsite shed, area is probably around Zeerust.
pmicenko

14BR
chapelbond

Class 4AR
aidan

Class 4AR
dswerbeloff

Is it a 15CA class?
nic

It s a 4AR with a proper chimney
albangg

A 15AR in the North West Province
MATTJAM

Class 19C
fjoubert

I know the class 4AR but unfortunately never got a chance to see one in steam, yet! Origionally the class 4A until reboilered with a standard no. 2 boiler. There are only two left in SA that I know of,  no. 1555 at Millsite and no. 1560 at Queenstown but I am not certain at this stage if they are
earmarked for cutting. A few of our drivers during the good old days were firemen on these locomotives and they tell me they were burners, meaning in the cab and on the hands when firing them. Another noticable thing on these locomotives was the fact that they were not fitted with steam reversers like all our other locomotives after the late 1920's. They were mostly used
during their days on the Krugersdorp - Zeerust Line.
Shaun

And the correct answer is.....

4AR, No. 1560, taken at Cowans Post on 10th March 1968 with Mafeking-Zeerust Pick-Up train.
Photograph credit to Dusty Durrant.

 
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