page_title: 2-4-2
section_title: Cape of Good Hope
hierarchical_section_title: 2-4-2 / Usage / Cape of Good Hope
caption_attribution_description: English: Walvisbaai 2-4-2T locomotive, used on the Walvisbaai 2ft 6in gauge line from 1899 to 1906, when the line was closed to traffic.
context_page_description: Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-4-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and two trailing wheels on one axle. The type is sometimes named Columbia after a Baldwin 2-4-2 locomotive was showcased at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held at Chicago, Illinois.
context_section_description: In 1899, the Walvis Bay Railway in the British territory of Walvis Bay, a Cape of Good Hope exclave in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika (German South West Africa), placed a single tank locomotive in service. The engine, named Hope and built by Kerr, Stuart and Company, remained in service until 1904 when operations on the railway were suspended. The line was abandoned in 1905, partly as a result of being buried by a sandstorm.
caption: The engine Hope, c. 1948
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