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  2. Port Elizabeth railway station - Wikipedia

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    Port Elizabeth railway station is a railway station, located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. In 1873, Prime Minister John Molteno of the Cape Colony commenced work on connecting Port Elizabeth to the developing national railway network , resulting in the station complex being located in the historic central district, near the harbour. [ 1 ]

  3. Game farm - Wikipedia

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    Game farms create network that is internationally proactive and interconnected but fractured at the local level due to racial inequalities that have plagued South Africa. This dichotomy of the two networks have created spaces for international clients and local elites to congregate and engage in trophy hunting due to private ownership which in ...

  4. List of heritage sites in Gqeberha - Wikipedia

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    The Port Elizabeth Opera House is an important example of early South Africa theatre architecture. Rehabilitated by stauch, Voster, Vos and Philip (1985). This building in the late Renaissance style, based broadly on the Doric Order, was designed in 1891 by Mr G. W. Smith, a prominent Port Elizabeth architect and was built by the firm Small and ...

  5. Alfred County Railway - Wikipedia

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    As South Africa's farmers re-entered the global markets in the late 1980s, the quality of produce going to markets became increasingly important. As handling is a key issue in the retail quality of bananas in particular, the farmers were in favour of reviving the Alfred County Railway, to reduce the amount of handling from banana plantation to ...

  6. Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Port Elizabeth–Avontuur / Patensie The Avontuur Railway was built from 1890 to 1905, and is 285 kilometres (177 mi) long. [2] Extension to Patensie completed in 1914. The Apple Express, a tourist train, ceased operations in December 2010. Locomotives used. CGR Type A 2-6-4T; CGR Type C 0-4-0T; CGR NG 0-6-0T; CGR NG 4-6-2T; NG3; NG6; NG8; NG9 ...

  7. Mexican Train - Wikipedia

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    A typical four-player game of Mexican Train using the double-nine set and the branching doubles variation; the eponymous Mexican Train is not in view Mexican Train is a game played with dominoes . The object of the game is for a player to play all the tiles from his or her hand onto one or more chains, or trains , emanating from a central hub ...

  8. Redhouse, South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Redhouse is a small village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, located to the north of the city of Port Elizabeth. It is adjacent to a declared wetland reserve, soon hopefully to be a Ramsar site. The village is situated on the Zwartkops River, and is host to the Redhouse Yacht Club. The village was built around the Redhouse train station ...

  9. Avontuur Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Avontuur Railway is a closed railway line between Gqeberha and the town of Avontuur in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.It is the longest 610 mm (2 ft) narrow gauge route in the world at a length of 285 kilometres (177 mi). [1] "