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P.A. Crush

These two tank locomotives were purchased for the later expansion of the original Kaiping "tramway" (railway). The original canal to Lutai proved unsatisfactory because of continuous silting up and the need for constant dredging. There were also massive losses of coal due to pilferage during the trans-shipments from rail to canal barge and then again at Lutai when transhipped to other local boats. Permission for the first extension of the original 7-mile railway was therefore granted by the Imperial court in 1886 for the railway to be extended to near the end of the canal at Lutai. The Kaiping tramway, owned by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. was reorganized into the Kaiping Railway Company and an American 2-6-2 tank locomotive (no.4, on the right of this picture) was ordered from the Grant Locomotive Works the same year. In the spring of 1887 permission was granted for further extensions of the railway to Taku (Dagu) and then Tientsin (Tianjin) under a yet further reorganized company now named the “China Railway Company”. At this stage additional locomotives were ordered (1887). These were six British-built 2-6-2 saddle-tank locomotives, three from Dubs(nos. 5,6 &7) and three from Sharp, Stewart & Co (nos. 8,9 &10). Sharp Stewart no. 9 is shown on the left of this picture. (A2/42)

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P.A. Crush & C.W. Kinder