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A photograph of the Port Elizabeth – Uitenhage railway line in 1877 The crest of the now defunct Cape Government Rails as seen in the Cape Town central train station. The Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways (SAR) in 1910.
The Cape Central Railway, later known as the New Cape Central Railway, was a railway in the Cape Colony, now part of South Africa. It linked the Cape Government Railways at Worcester, first to Ashton, then extended to Swellendam and eventually to Mossel Bay. This privately owned line of 205 miles was bought by South African Railways in 1925. [1]
Boarding Cape to Cairo Railway in the Belgian Congo, c. 1900–1915. Crossing at Victoria Falls. The Cape to Cairo Railway is an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing from southern to northern Africa. It would have been the largest, and most important, railway of the continent.
Cape Town's first railway station, circa 1870. The first railway station in Cape Town was a rudimentary wooden structure built in 1861, and was located on the site of the present Golden Acre shopping centre. Cape Town's railways were in their infancy and the early station was small and simple. [2]
Rail network in 1892 Rail network in 1906 Rail network in 1950. Construction of the first railway from Cape Town to Wellington was commenced in 1858. However the first passenger-carrying and goods service was a small line of about 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) built by the Natal Railway Company, linking the town of Durban with Harbour Point, opened on 26 June 1860. [2]
The first railway was actually built to standard gauge (the Semarang–Solo–Yogyakarta corridor), but later lines were built to cape-gauge size owing to economic feasibility. The remainder of standard gauge lines were regauged by Japanese army during World War II to 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm ) gauge, with parts using standard gauge sleepers.
The Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-0T of 1858 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope, and the first locomotive in South Africa. ...
The South African Railways Class 7F 4-8-0 of 1913 was a steam locomotive. In 1913, the New Cape Central Railway placed three Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam locomotives in service. In 1925, when the New Cape Central Railway was amalgamated into the South African Railways, these three locomotives were renumbered and designated Class 7F ...