UR GB class

The UR GB class, known later as the UR / KUR EB1 class, and later still as part of the EAR 22 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built by North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, Scotland, for the Uganda Railway (UR). The design of the GB class was based upon that of the earlier UR G class.[2]

Uganda Railway GB class Kenya-Uganda Railway GB (EB1) class East African Railways 22 class (part)
Type and origin Power type Steam Builder North British Locomotive Company Build date 1919 Total produced 34
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 4-8-0 Gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ^3⁄8 in)
Career Operators Uganda Railway (UR) → Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) → East African Railways (EAR) Class UR: GB class KUR: GB class / EB1 class EAR: 22 class (part) Numbers UR / KUR: 128–161 EAR: 2218–23 Disposition All scrapped
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The 34 members of the GB class entered service on the UR in 1919, and continued in service after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926. Some of them were in service long enough to be also operated by the KUR's successor, the East African Railways (EAR) as part of its 22 class, from 1948 until the last ones were withdrawn in 1964.[3]

See also

• Rail transport in Kenya
• Rail transport in Uganda

References

Notes

1. Ramaer 1974, pp. 42–43, 52, 84.
2. Ramaer 1974, pp. 42–43.
3. Ramaer 1974, pp. 42, 44.

Bibliography

• Durrant, A E; Lewis, C P; Jorgensen, A A (1981). Steam in Africa. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 0600349462.
• Patience, Kevin (1976). Steam in East Africa: a pictorial history of the railways in East Africa, 1893-1976. Nairobi: Heinemann Educational Books (E.A.) Ltd. OCLC 3781370.
• Ramaer, Roel (1974). Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. David & Charles Locomotive Studies. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK; North Pomfret, Vt, USA: David & Charles. ISBN 0715364375.
• Ramaer, Roel (2009). Gari la Moshi: Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. Malmö, Sweden: Stenvalls. ISBN 9789172661721.