Nigeria Railways 4-8-2 Locomotives in Nigeria

Class 806 (Locobase 20913)

Data from No. 58, "Goods Engine and Tender for the Nigerian Railways", Vulcan Foundry Locomotive Catalogue found on Flicker's Historical Locomotive Images website at [], last accessed 26 June 2021. (Many thanks to Jorge Cerezo Toledo for his 26 June 2021 email containing links to several sites including the Vulcan Catalogue referred to above.) Works numbers were 4423-4425 in 1930.

Other than the massive Mountains built for the South African Railways, this trio were among the biggest of the wheel arrangement to roll on the Cape gauge. Firebox heating surface area included four arch tubes. And, together only with Alco's Manila Railway 4-8-2s described in Locobase 9693, this design used three simple-expansion cylinders.

Class unknown (Locobase 20868)

Data from "Mountain (4-8-2) Type Locomotive", Superheater Company, Ltd Brochure, p. seventeen [sic]. See also Vulcan Magazine, Spring 1948, pp 14-16 (reproduced on [], visited 26 November 2004) for data and full description. Works numbers were 988-992.

Small drivers and square-shouldered Belpaire firebox contributed to the impression of greater size than this Mountain quintet actually possessed. The MLS-patent superheater used an AS type header.