The UR MS class, known later as the KUR MS class, later still as the KUR EE class, and finally as the EAR 10 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge 2-6-4T steam locomotives built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company in Patricroft, Salford, England, for the Uganda Railway (UR).[2]
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Service history
editThe eight members of the class entered service on the UR as its MS class in 1913–14.[3] The UR acquired them to carry out shunting and light traffic duties on its branch lines.[4] All members of the class continued in service after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926, and were reclassified in 1929 as the KUR EE class.[3]
In 1949, they became part of the fleet of the KUR's successor, the East African Railways (EAR). The EAR later reclassified them as its 10 class; they were withdrawn in the 1960s.[3]
Preservation
editOne member of the class, no. 1003, has been preserved, and is on static display at Jamhuri Park in Nairobi.[5][6][7]
See also
editReferences
editNotes
edit- ^ Ramaer 1974, pp. 36, 84.
- ^ Ramaer 1974, pp. 35–36.
- ^ a b c Ramaer 1974, pp. 35–36, 84.
- ^ Patience 1996, p. 23.
- ^ Patience 1996, p. 49.
- ^ "Steam locomotive information: Kenya". www.steamlocomotive.info. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "111560: Nairobi Kenya Jamhuri Park EAR Display 1003". Weston Langford Railway Photography. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
Bibliography
edit- Durrant, A E; Lewis, C P; Jorgensen, A A (1981). Steam in Africa. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 978-0-600-34946-4. OCLC 9014344. OL 15088099M. Wikidata Q111363476.
- 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, Wikidata Q111363477
- Patience, Kevin (1996). Steam Twilight: The last years of steam on Kenya Railways. Bahrain: Kevin Patience. OCLC 37615720.
- Ramaer, Roel (1974). Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. David & Charles Locomotive Studies. Newton Abbot, North Pomfret: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-6437-6. OCLC 832692810. OL 5110018M. Wikidata Q111363478.
- Ramaer, Roel (2009). Gari la Moshi: Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways. Malmö: Stenvalls. ISBN 978-91-7266-172-1. OCLC 502034710. Wikidata Q111363479.
