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The 10CR gets a repaint.

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10CR number 771 is one of the main 3’6” gauge displays next to Hoekfontein Station.

Built in 1910, by North British of Glasgow, the loco spent its early life working commuter passenger trains between Johannesburg and Springs before being transferred to main line work at Kimberley.

Having spent some its life at Sandstone in a non-original red livery the locomotive is now receiving a coat of black paint while its accompanying caboose is repainted in red.

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