SAR SAS Brass Number Plate Class 19D Steam Loco Nr 2720 (Pre-WWII) Last built in Germany See Details

South African Railways Suid Afrikaanse Spoorwee Brass Number Plate Steam Loco Class 19D Number 2720

Size: 526mm x 369mm

Weight: +/- 7.5kg

Steam Locomotive 2720 Class 19D was, according to the below information as gathered on Wikipedia, the last Class 19D locomotive to be manufactured in Germany and also the last Class 19D locomotive to be manufactured prior to Word War II.

According to information gathered on Wikipedia, the Class 19D Steam Locomotive was the final development of the Class 19 series of locomotives by the SAR. The first 40 were built in Germany in 1937, 20 by Friederich Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and 20 by Borsig Lokomotiv Werke in Hennigsdorf, Berlin. A further 95 locomotives were ordered in 1938. Fifteen were built by Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia, 40 by Friederich Krupp AG in Essen and the last  40 by Borsig Lokomotiv Werke in Hennigsdorf, Berlin numbered 2681 to 2720.

Locomotive building was interrupted by World War II and post-war locomotive procurement saw German suppliers being replaced by British ones. In 1947 the first 50 post-war Class 19D locomotives were delivered by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns of Darlington, England numbered 2721 to 2770.

The final batch of 50 Class 19D locomotives for the SAR were delivered in 1949 by the North British Locomotive Company (NBL) of Glasgow, Scotland, numbered 3321 to 3370.

Between 1951 and 1953 Henschel and Son built 21 more for the Rhodesian Railways (RR), and 12 more were built for the Angolan Railway and for industry.