The South African Railways Class H2 4-8-2T of 1909 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Colony of Natal.

By 1910, five of them had been converted to a 4-8-2T wheel arrangement and in 1912, when the South African Railways classification and renumbering of locomotives took place, these five were designated Class H2.

[1][3][4] On the NGR, the locomotive type became known as the Reid Tenwheeler, until a classification system was introduced in 1905 or 1906 and they were designated the NGR Class C.[1][3][5][6] When the Reid Tenwheelers began to be withdrawn from mainline service and placed in branch line and shunting service where smaller radius curves were encountered, it was found that the ten-coupled wheelbase was prone to derailment in many goods yards.

The Class H2s were all allocated to Greyville Loco Depot in Natal, where they were used on station pilot duties at Durban and to shunt in the Harbour.

The main reason for their longevity was that, until the arrival of Class 36-000 diesel-electric shunting engines earlier in 1975, the H2's were the only locomotives able to pass beneath the staithes of the aged Bluff coaling appliance at Wests and up to four or five of them were rostered for this work at any time.

Two of the Class H2s, numbers 329 and 330, were retained in service at Greyville Loco Depot, mainly to shunt the coal stage, until its eventual closure in September 1976.