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===Mozambique=== The [[Mozambique Ports and Railways|''Caminhos de Ferro de Lourenço Marques'']] in Portuguese [[Mozambique]] ordered its first three class 300 Pacific locomotives from Baldwin in 1919. They hauled passenger trains on the {{convert|88|km|adj=on}} line between [[Maputo|Lourenço Marques]] (Maputo) and [[Ressano Garcia]], and also crossed the South African border at [[Komatipoort]] in South Africa, {{convert|93|km|mi|abbr=off}} from Lourenço Marques, where South African Railways locomotives took over for the rest of the way to [[Pretoria]]. Two more locomotives were added in 1923 and a further order for four additional Pacific locomotives was placed with [[Henschel]] in 1955, for use on the [[Beira–Bulawayo railway]] line.<ref name=Continental/><ref>Baldwin Works List</ref><ref name=Henschel/> Henschel also supplied three more modern Pacific type locomotives to Mozambique in 1955. These Henschel Pacifics weighed 73.75 tons in working order while its total weight, tender included, was 128 tons. The firegrate area was {{convert|3.8|m2|sqft|0|abbr=off}} and it had {{convert|480|x|660|mm|adj=on}} cylinders and {{convert|1524|mm||adj=mid|-diameter}} driving wheels. These locomotives were good examples of Pacific type {{Track gauge|Cape|allk=on}} passenger locomotives in [[Southern Africa]].<ref>Glasers Annalen</ref> When they arrived, their older American-built counterparts were relieved of mainline duty to haul the Lourenço Marques local suburban services. All the Pacifics were allocated to the Lourenço Marques shed for the whole of their service lives and all were still in service in 1971.
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