Port Elizabeth Harbour Board 2-6-0T No. 'Hunslet'
Rosherville, Gauteng, South Africa 		Location: ESKOM
Status: Stored
Posted: Sep 26, 2025 @ 12:09:51 by Russell Newman
The former Port Elizabeth Harbour Board, Hunslet built 2-6-0ST Works No. 790, "Hunslet", could be returning to steam again as the locomotive along with four others have been passed into the care of the New Cape Central Railway and is being moved to Robertson Station in Robertson, South Africa for restoration.
Posted: Jul 3, 2022 @ 22:07:03 by Eddie Wearing
The five locomotives still in the yard are all unique BARCLAY, 1105/1907 built 2-4-0T originally Jersey Railway (Channel Islands) No. 5 and the only survivor of that railway – it came to SA in 1928 HUNSLET, 790/1902 built 2-6-0ST, the last survivor of a design originally built as Table Bay Harbour Board locomotives AVONSIDE, 2009/1928 built 4-8-2T and the last survivor of the “Super Avonside” design meant as a competitor to the North British 4-8-2T design HENSCHEL, 1950 built 2-6-2T an unusual one-off ordered by ESKOM for coal traffic “BERLINER”, 1926 built 0-6-0T, originally Blinkpan Colliery The Kitson is 2269/1879
Posted: Jul 3, 2022 @ 21:07:54 by Eddie Wearing
In 2021 Timeslive broke a story on the fate of ESKOM’s historic steam locomotives. Back in 2011, ESKOM retrieved their locomotives from SANRASM. The locomotives were dumped on the ground in the open in a remote part of the Rosherville complex where they have lay for 10 years or more. The historic 1879 built KITSON was taken out of the yard in 2016, repainted and plinthed in the Rosherville complex and appears secure but the others make quite a woeful sight.
Posted: Sep 18, 2017 @ 12:09:33 by Steve Frost
To ESCOM, Rosherville 20th October 2010.