Cape Copper Co. Scotia class

The Scotia class of the Cape Copper Co. was introduced in 1900 to alleviate the problems with the bad quality of the local water encountered on the previous Clara class. To reduce the sediments in the boiler tubes, the new locomotives received a boiler with shorter tubes, but a longer firebox. The six locomotives built between 1900 and 1905 still had a 0-6-2 wheel arrangement and sheet-metal casing on the sides to protect the moving parts from sand.

They were named Scotia, Hibernia, Cambria, Canada, Australia and India. In 1922 the O'okiep copper mines were closed and there was only a basic twice-weekly service on this two and a half feet narrow gauge line between the location of the mines and Port Nolloth. Although mining was restarted in 1937, this was only at a very small scale and the locomotives were withdrawn around 1939 and 1940.