Federated Malay States class G
Malaysia 1898 34 produced
From 1898 onwards, both the Selangor Government Railway and the Perak Government Railway in Malaysia received 13 and eight ten-wheelers respectively, which were built by various British manufacturers and hardly differed from each other. When the Federated Malay States Railways was founded, these became class G and were supplemented by eleven others. Two more came from the Malacca Railway, which only later joined the FMSR.
All but two locomotives were retired before World War II. These two were likely used by the British troops to form an armored train during the war. One of these is also said to have been brought to Siam and Burma by the Japanese.
Technical data
General
- Built
- 1898-1903
- Manufacturers
- Kitson & Co., Hunslet, Neilson, Reid & Co., Robert Stephenson & Co.
- Wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0 (Ten-wheeler)
- Gauge
- 1,000 mm (Meter gauge)
Dimensions and weights
- Service mass
- 29.7 t
- Adhesion mass
- 22.3 t
- Total mass
- 52 t
- Axle load
- 7.4 t
Boiler
- Evaporative heating surface
- 68.377 m²
- Total heating surface
- 68.4 m²
Power plant
- Driver diameter
- 1,308 mm
- Boiler pressure
- 10.3 bar
- Expansion type
- simple expansion
- Cylinders
- two, 368 x 508 mm
Power
- Power source
- steam
- Starting effort
- 46.3 kN
Calculated values
- Factor of adhesion
- 1 : 4.71
- Adhesive weight/Total
- 1 : 1.34
- Tractive force/Heating surface
- 1 : 14.14