Complex sentence: When the four narrow gauge branchline systems in Natal were closed down by the SAR, the Weenen and Mid-Illovo lines were torn up, but the Harding line was privatised in 1988 as the Alfred County Railway (ACR), operating out of Port Shepstone.
Split into simpler sentences: When the four narrow gauge branchline systems in Natal were closed down by the SAR, the Weenen and Mid-Illovo lines were torn up. The Harding line was privatised in 1988 as the Alfred County Railway (ACR), operating out of Port Shepstone.