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Kenya-Uganda Railway EC3 class East African Railways 57 class
Type and origin Power type Steam Designer Builder
Beyer, Peacock & Co. Serial number 6905–6910, 6970–6975 Build date 1939, 1940 Total produced 12
Career Operators
Class KUR: EC3 class EAR: 57 class Number in class 12 Numbers First run 1939 Withdrawn 1967 Preserved KUR 87 (EAR 5711) Disposition 11 scrapped, one preserved
The KUR EC3 class , later known as the EAR 57 class , was a class of
1,000 mm (3 ft 3+ 3 ⁄8 in ) gauge
4-8-4+4-8-4
Garratt -type
articulated
steam locomotives . The twelve members of the class were built by
Beyer, Peacock & Co. in
Manchester , England, for the
Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR). They entered service between 1939 and 1941, and were later operated by the KUR's successor, the
East African Railways (EAR).
The numbers, build dates and names of each member of the class were as follows:
KUR 87 Karamoja at
Nairobi Railway Museum , 2012
Durrant, A E (1981).
Garratt Locomotives of the World (rev. and enl. ed.). Newton Abbot, Devon, UK; North Pomfret, Vt, USA: David & Charles.
ISBN
0-7153-7641-1 .
OCLC
9326294 .
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
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 .
Staff writer (21 July 1939).
"4-8-4t+4-8-4 Metre-Gauge Beyer-Garratt locomotives for the Kenya & Uganda Railways" (PDF) .
The Railway Gazette .
ISSN
0373-5346 .
Staff writer (February 1955).
" "57" Class Locomotives" (PDF) . East African Railways and Harbours Magazine . 2 (1).
East African Railways and Harbours : 22. Retrieved 8 December 2014 .
Media related to
KUR EC3 class at Wikimedia Commons