Cape Town Railway & Dock 2-4-0T  The Cape Town Railway & Dock 2-4-0T of 1864 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope. A railway line between Salt River and Wynberg, constructed with private capital, was opened to the public on 19 December 1864. Three tank locomotives with a 2-4-0 wheel arrangement were acquired as motive power for the line, one by the Wynberg Railway Company and the other two by the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company, who undertook to rent and operate the Wynberg line. In 1872, the locomotives came onto the roster of the Cape Government Railways when it took over the operation of all railways in the Cape of Good Hope. They remained in service on the Wynberg line until after its conversion to dual gauge broad-and-Cape gauges, which began around 1872, and were retired in 1881 when sufficient Cape gauge locomotives were in service. While the broad gauge Cape Town-Wellington Railway was still being built, the independent Wynberg Railway Company was formed. It constructed a broad gauge line to Wynberg from a junction with the Wellington line at Salt River. Work commenced on 19 December 1862 and the line was completed and opened to traffic two years later to the day, on 19 December 1864. The company acquired one side-tank locomotive from Robert Stephenson and Company and named it after Mr. Watson, the general manager. When the Cape Government Railways was established, this locomotive became its engine no. 12. The locomotive had its cylinders arranged outside the engine frame and was equipped with Stephenson Link valve gear. Operation of the line was contracted to the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company at a rental of £3,600 per year. The new Wynberg line proved to be popular and it was soon found necessary to acquire additional locomotives to cope with the rapidly increasing passenger traffic on the Cape’s first suburban line. Early in 1865, two more 2-4-0 side-tank locomotives, identical to the first and numbered 10 and 11, were therefore delivered to Cape Town Railway and Dock from Robert Stephenson and Company. As was the practice then, they were also named, in this case after two of the directors of the company. Very little is known about these locomotives and author Frank Holland could not find sufficient information about them to prepare a dimensional diagram, like he managed to do with virtually every other locomotive which is described in his publications of 1971 and 1972.