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A South African Railway History Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 14 December 2009. Paxton, Leith, and David Bourne (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways. C. Struik (Pty) Ltd., ISBN 0-86977-211-2; Burman, Jose (1984), Early Railways at the Cape, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, ISBN 0-7981-1760-5
The T&D in 1905. The Tralee and Dingle Light Railway and Tramway was a 51 km (32 mi), 914 mm (3 ft) narrow gauge railway running between Tralee and Dingle, with a 10 km (6.2 mi) branch from Castlegregory Junction to Castlegregory, in County Kerry on the west coast of Ireland.
original 1860 route (oldest line in South Africa) Stanger–Kearsney 1941 Narrow gauge. Kearsney–Stanger Light Railway: Okiep–Port Nolloth: 1944? Narrow gauge. Namaqualand Railway: Knysna–Templeman 1949 Narrow gauge. South Western Railway Co. Ltd. [2] Opwekker–Tygerberg 1956 Milnerton Railway, opened 1904, last race train 1954.
Tralee and Dingle locomotive No. 5 was delivered from its builders, The Hunslet Engine Company, of Leeds as their works number 555 in 1892, ready fitted for oil-burning. It is believed that this was a prototype and Hunslet were looking for a railway to demonstrate its product, one of the first for narrow gauge.
The South African Railways and Harbours Administration (SAR&H) was established on 31 May 1910 with formation of the Union of South Africa by the amalgamation of the four colonial railways and all harbours in South Africa - about 11,000 kilometres of track. It would manage road transport and pipelines in South Africa.
Between 2011 and 2021 PRASA experienced a significant fall in its ability to fulfill its mandate to provide rail based public transportation in South Africa's urban areas. [4] Statistics SA found that about 80% of regular PRASA commuters had stopped using the company's network of municipal railway services between 2013 and 2021. [4]
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]
Public transport in South Africa began in Cape Town in May 1801, when a weekly coach service to Simon's Town was announced. The Cape's first horse-drawn omnibus was introduced, based on George Shillibeer's model. The Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company was formed in September 1862, and began operations on April 1, 1863.