Yet another strange find in a strange place by Clinton Hattingh. This time its at "The Toy Train" in Meyerton. This is not the only odd thing at these premises, in fact its a gem of the strange and obsolete. The NBL industrial steam loco preserved under roof at the former JR Metals (a plant dealer in the Meyerton industrial area in Meyerton) is 4-8-4T NBL 25940/1946 ex AMCOAL's Springbok Mine (Hope Section) [later Goedehoop] colliery where it worked as No 5. The loco was out of use by 1991. The Hunslet saw service as "No 1" from new at PPC's small cement "No 4 Works", at Orkney. By 1991 the loco was out of use, and moved to JR Metals Ltd, ©DR Walker. 2009-2012. Created 06 January 2011. Photographs courtesy of Clinton Hattingh, Loco information via Piet Conradie and John Middleton's Industrial Locomotives of South Africa 1991. |