The 150th anniversary of the first railways and the 10th anniversary of the Railroad Association of South Africa
By: compiled by Allen A. Jorgensen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chris van Rensburg Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780868461137
Subjects: Railroads; Railroad Association of South Africa; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Before the railways; title: Railways to the interior: Nuwekloof and the Hex River Pass into the Karoo; title: Linking Cape lines from the coast; title: Transvaal rails: the Rand tram and Witwatersrand; title: Branch line development to Union; title: Railways during the Anglo-Boer War and to Union; title: Pre-Union locomotives and rolling stock; title: Railway engineering and operating achievements: the first 50 years; title: Unification of South Africa's railways; title: The first years of the SAR; title: The Depression and war years; title: Post war reconstruction; title: Decade of the 1970's; title: The end of state protection and railway commercialisation; title: Beyond 2010.