page_title: South African type XF tender
section_title: Locomotives
hierarchical_section_title: South African type XF tender / Locomotives
caption_attribution_description: English: Type XF tender plate of SAR Class 8FW no. 1236Location: De Aar, Northern Cape
context_page_description: The South African type XF tender was a steam locomotive tender from the pre-Union era in Transvaal.
  Type XF tenders first entered service in 1902, as tenders to the 8th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam locomotives which were acquired by the Imperial Military Railways in that year. These locomotives were designated Class 8A on the South African Railways in 1912.
context_section_description: In the SAR years, tenders were numbered for the engines they were delivered with. In most cases, an oval number plate bearing the engine number and often also the tender type, would be attached to the rear end of the tender. During the classification and renumbering of locomotives onto the SAR roster in 1912, no separate classification and renumbering list was published for tenders, which should have been renumbered according to the locomotive renumbering list.
  Six locomotive classes were delivered new with Type XF tenders, built by three manufacturers. Bearing in mind that tenders could and did migrate between engines, the tenders should have been numbered in the SAR number ranges as shown.
  1902: IMR 8th Class, SAR Class 8A, numbers 1092 to 1131.
  1903: CGR 8th Class of 1902, SAR Class 8, third batch, numbers 1082 to 1091.
  1903: CSAR Class 8-L2, SAR Class 8B, numbers 1132 to 1161.
  1903: CSAR Class 8-L3, SAR Class 8C, numbers 1162 to 1191.
  1904: CGR 8th Class of 1904, SAR Class 8F, numbers 1234 to 1243.
  1912: SAR Class ME, number 1618.
caption: Type XF tender plate, SAR Class 8F