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UR GD class

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Power type
  
Steam

Total produced
  
62

Build date
  
1923–1930

Configuration
  
4-8-0

UR GD class

Builder
  
Vulcan Foundry Nasmyth, Wilson and Company

Gauge
  
1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ⁄8 in)

The UR GD class, known later as the UR / KUR EB3 class, and later still as the EAR 24 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 38 in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built for the Uganda Railway (UR). It was a larger and modified version of the earlier, experimental, UR GC class.

The first batch of GD class engines entered service on the UR in 1923, and further batches entered service progressively, including after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.

References

UR GD class Wikipedia