The 150th anniversary of the first railways and the 10th anniversary of the Railroad Association of South Africa

1st ed.
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The 150th anniversary of the first railways and the 10th anniversary of the Railroad Association of South Africa

1st ed.

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English
Pages
344

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Before the railways
Railways to the interior: Nuwekloof and the Hex River Pass into the Karoo
Linking Cape lines from the coast
Transvaal rails: the Rand tram and Witwatersrand
Branch line development to Union
Railways during the Anglo-Boer War and to Union
Pre-Union locomotives and rolling stock
Railway engineering and operating achievements: the first 50 years
Unification of South Africa's railways
The first years of the SAR
The Depression and war years
Post war reconstruction
Decade of the 1970's
The end of state protection and railway commercialisation
Beyond 2010.

Edition Notes

Published in
Johannesburg

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
385.0968
Library of Congress
HE3426.A6 J67 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 344 p. :
Number of pages
344

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25244732M
ISBN 10
086846113X
ISBN 13
9780868461137
LCCN
2011412181
OCLC/WorldCat
760159739

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16555750W

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