The CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 of 1884 is a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape Colony.In 1884 the Cape Government Railways placed two experimental 3rd Class tender locomotives with a 4-4-0 American type wheel arrangement in service. They were designed by the Cape Eastern System to be able to use the low-grade local coal with its high content of incombustible matter.
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