South African Class 4 4-8-2 Class 4 on the SAR. Both locomotives were placed in service in the Karoo, working between Touws River and Beaufort West. In their later years they were stationed at Worcester, from where they were used extensively on and around the Cape Western system’s mainline, working pick-up goods trains to De Doorns in the Hex River valley and on the Mosselbaai line via Robertson. They were withdrawn from service by 1938. The main picture shows SAR no. 1478 at Worcester, c. 1930, with Cole's Pop safety valves. South African Class 4 4-8-2 The South African Railways Class 4 4-8-2 of 1911
Minim (palaeography) large diamond-shaped "finials" at the top and bottom, such as in "textualis quadrata", the most decorated form of Gothic. "Textualis sine pedibus", literally "textualis without feet", has minims with no finials at all, while "textualis rotunda" has round finials. Minim (palaeography) In palaeography, a minim is a short, vertical stroke used in handwriting. The word is derived from the Latin "minimum", meaning "least" or "smallest". A minim is the basic stroke for the letters i, m, n, and u in uncial script and later scripts deriving from it. Parts of other letters are based on minims as well: when a