South African Class K 4-6-4T

The vehicles of the class K of the South African Railways (SAR ) were tender locomotives with the wheel arrangement 2'C2 '.

During the First World War there was a locomotive shortage in the SAR, which is why seven locomotives that were actually built in 1915 by North British Railway for Manila in the Philippines, instead were delivered to South Africa.

The locomotives were the passenger train service between Springs and Randfontein in the Transvaal (now Gauteng ) is used, where they supplemented the locomotives of the class F. Other than these, the locomotives of class K were fitted with Walschaerts control and superheater.

The locomotives were retired in 1940; no copy has been preserved.