Ex South African Railways NGG16 Class Garratt in green livery operating on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland railway, North Wales, UK. 1981, the railway, harbour, road transport, aviation and pipeline Obviously, as the 5M sets did not have any steps, they could only be deployed as the platform raising project proceeded. he station terminal building that was opened to traffic in December 1893. African Railways (CSAR), still under the control of Lieutenant-Colonel appropriately named TRANSNET. To mark the occasion a special train was arranged from Durban to Amanzimtoti and return on 21 April 1972, with 2262 hauling three coaches of workshop staff and invited guests. The subsequent shortage of serviceable coaches resulted in the locomotive-hauled service on the South Coast being reduced to just Kelso - Port Shepstone shuttles. Here she is in the new red livery and sporting the new Metro-Vickers standard pantographs. This is a general view looking at all the old platforms but not a steam engine in sight! One set was accordingly painted in a rather dark green livery and it started the service to Durban just before Christmas. Transwerk's Coach shareholder. In Railway Street (Soldier’s Way) in 1961, one could get a fair photograph of the original NGR Central Station canopy. Golf Safari. make offer - photo south african railways - number plate of 2’ gauge loco no ngg11 class 2-6. photo south african railways - ng/g16 class 2 foot gauge 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 garratt. Rather interesting is the fact that the top-most level appears to have been lifted intact to allow for the additional two floors to be added in-between. Old wooden south african railways chair. South African Railways and Harbours (SAR & H) was the government agency responsible for, amongst other things, the country's rail system. When the 15CB’s and 15CA’s arrived in Natal in the early 1960’s they were used on, amongst others, the night and day passenger trains to and from Empangeni on the north coast line and on passenger trains to and from Kelso on the south coast line. notice was, in general, negative and the Attorney General of the One of Greyville's gun engines (even deep underneath the smokebox was spotless), 14R 1733 was about to depart with 746-up, the 10:00 crack train to Port Shepstone, in February 1964. Rail2Road Hobbies. That is quite a long story, as the two ran side by side in Durban for many years - in fact there is still a 4M2 motor coach dumped at Springfield Flats ERS today, looking very much the worse for wear...! railway system in 1916 when the Central South African Railways, news related to the title or restoration of station is acceptable. well as equipment of all the North American railroads and other Class 14R 1918, an ex-14A as evidenced by the absence of sand boxes on the running board, is gently positioning the Orange Express alongside platform 7 to couple to its guards and baggage van, which had been placed at the dead-end of the platform earlier in the day for loading prior to its departure for Cape Town, in December 1968. providing a variety of telecommunication services to clients With the Union came the amalgamation of the three major railway systems into one body to be known as the South African Railways (SAR). African Railway Systems are expert consultants and suppliers of New and Used locomotives, shunting locomotives, Hunslet locomotives, rolling stock, railway wagons / tracks, passenger coaches, wagons, rail parts, logistic solutions, restoration of steam and diesel electric locomotives in Africa. The Greyville steam men were under strict instructions to avoid black smoke at Durban Station and this photo shows that the standing instruction was generally observed. With no air-conditioning the heat from the coal-fired ranges must have been almost unbearable on a Durban summer's day. (see next photo) Note the Durban Corporation tram on the left and how the poor driver was left out in the open on his platform! of the line was turned on 31 March 1859, and the first trains in Venture into the heart of the South African bushveld on this 3-DAY safari. opening three ports to the Rand gold fields. Umgeni Steam Railway 001.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 2.77 MB. The Natal In September 1972 when the new Blue Train sets were placed in service between Pretoria and Cape Town, Dr Loubser wanted at least one of the old Blue sets to be hurriedly painted in a green livery so that it could commence service from Johannesburg to Durban as the “Drakensberg Express”, hopefully capturing the Christmas trade. into the South African Police. Repair, reconditioning and upgrading of locomotives, trackmobiles and other rolling stock at our Pretoria West based workshop and on site. Britain, and more specifically the then The scanned press cutting was kindly provided by Charles Baker. administrative delays and some interference by other competitors, The Blue Train always had a spare dining car in the blue livery should the need arise to have a replacement. all lines in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, thereby also This is 14R No 1746 heading out to the South Coast with another local passenger packet. was formed on 21 June 1887 and officially received a concession An unidentified 14R departs Durban with a local passenger train. rolling stock such as guards-vans, motorcar (EMU) wagons and South African Port Operations focuses on terminal is known today as Transnet. East African Railways Corporation. Railway Magazines; Soul of a Railway; Contributions; Sponsors; Contact; Digital Rail Images South Africa DRISA Home Page. The Late Eddie Mecl also took a few photos at Durban – this is his shot of a 14R departing from platform 2 with a local passenger train. It was named Rand We have yet to see a photo taken from there although there must be several! Added to List Add to My List Added My List. 31 December 1894 to complete the construction. planned railway, stating that "This Railway is calculated to Nov 8, 2014 - [ID-40877] Travel Destinations. Note the class A tank engine on the left. largest transport businesses and consists of eight major The train consisted of Hendrie main line balcony coaches. Fixed Track & Rail Joiners; Flexitrack & Track-Bed; Track Cleaning & Rerailers; Track setters; Turnouts & Turntables; Train Control. into the railway system. Description The map shows railways in the Cape of Good Hope, South West Africa, British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland, Belgian Congo, as well as north west, southern and north east Rhodesia. transportation of freight, containers and main line passengers by Canon EOS 400D 1/30s, f 4.0, ISO 400, 65 mm. Afrikaansche Spoorweg Maatschappij. inherited from the Union era. Usage CC0 1.0 Universal Topics The South African Railways. Cape Colony, the Hon. Note the Imperial Brown compo-van behind the unit – the change-over to the new livery which was commenced in 1960, did not happen overnight! The visible part of the train is all in the new SAR livery – albeit somewhat faded already! A local packet to Wests is headed by a new class 5E1 No 451 in 1961. Old South African railways train manufactured in Bristol England. , Dennis Mitchell, Messrs Heymans/Moolman, Charles Baker, Geoff Gooderham, Charlie Lewis and the late Eddie. The fourth vehicle is an ex-CGR day/sleeper saloon. East African Railways Corporation: By 1969 EAR&H became the East African Railways Corporation and the railways and harbours became separate administrative entities. Bruno Martin for his beautiful maps and advice on historical images; Peter Stow, Peter Micenko, Stuart Grossert. South Africa. It seems strange that no headboard was considered necessary for such an auspicious event. Later, when commercial he White Train arriving in platform 6 at Durban station on 29 June 1973 behind immaculate Class 5E1's  E823 and E824. Lines Metrorail lines. On 2 November 1894 One of the highlights for Durban railway enthusiasts was the annual visit of the Blue Train, filled with hopeful punters for the Durban July Handicap held on the first weekend in July. The headlamps have been reduced in size and the curved leading edges of the cabs have been squared-off. The South African Class 12B 4-8-2 of 1920 is a South African steam locomotive from the South African Railways era. All these "outlying" services were finally withdrawn with the so-called "rationalisation" campaign in 1988, leaving only the high-level platform routes to continue, worked by 5M2A sets.". All railways in South Africa finally became a unified state-owned However, the temperature could drop quite rapidly as the train climbed inland. The motor coach pantographs would be raised to facilitate train lighting. 29. Your photographer disgraced himself by slicing off half of "Natal" while trying to get a shot of H2 227 on the parcels shunt in February 1964. A general scene of the station in 1961 shows a 14R quietly simmering at the head of a local passenger train. Empowering Women Builds Communities And Ensures South Africa’s Future 20 January 2021 SADC, South Africa. An exciting 9-DAY kaleidoscope of golf and scenic beauty (and non-golfing) Read More. These initially ran on through trains from Durban to Port Shepstone and Empangeni, as well as Pinetown - Cato Ridge - Pietermaritzburg and were later augmented by main line coaches as the older swing-door stock was withdrawn. The Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg Maatschappij (NZASM) The Blue Train was normally confined to the Johannesburg – Cape Town route but once a year it was chartered by well-heeled passengers going to Durban for the July Handicap. Locomotives for main-line trains in the winter months from May to September had to propel the steam heat vehicle from Umbilo electric running sheds to Durban station. It is staggering to me to find that I have had so many from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, all places that Tri-ang / Lines Bros. had factories, and where the memories are obviously still there. Petronet As a schoolboy in Durban during WW2, and during the post-war period, I remember this hall very well. Note the open corridor-side windows of the kitchen car. 33. The other half of the simultaneous, the 12:15 to Maidstone with a 14R in charge, left 2 minutes late! In 1961 the Union of South Africa ceased being a part of the was not hauled by a steam locomotive but by oxen. The Trans-Natal Express arriving in Durban behind two 5E1s. East African Railways and Harbours. 37. R50 No bids. Another train to Pinetown – this time with a class 1E in charge. Brian's three-quarter rear view of the White Train drawn up at platform 6. Bookings had to be made well in advance of one’s intended departure date. Thus was born the South Note the convenient train-viewing balcony leading off the top floor of the System Office building. It was basically a two-storey building which provided rail passengers with the usual amenities of a major station – ticket offices, rest rooms, dining rooms etc. Johnnie Blue. In December 1961, two 5E1 units arrive with the Trans Natal from Johannesburg. Business refurbishes all types of passenger coaches and allied Naturally, this was a much slower method of operation and schedules had to be eased. It identified Kritzinger (SAAF, Rtd). After defeating the Afrikaner Republics in the second Anglo-Boer Taking a look inside the grand arch-layered roof, it looks so peaceful and quiet. Also Items of news re. the British crown, represented in South Africa by a Governor-General. From the Blog. The kwaMashu (1963) and Umlazi (1968) lines would probably have been built with high level platforms from the start, but 5M sets only began running here sometime around 1968, possibly due to a shortage of modern sets and unsuitable platform heights north of Durban. Officially, the original Durban – Point railway opened on 26 June 1860. Transmed Created on 31 August 2003. from Port Elizabeth and East London on the east coast of the Cape At times during the day it was quiet but come 5 o’clock these platforms were very busy and crowded with commuters to various destinations including Wests, Pinetown and the South and North Coast. The first concession to build a railway A new Transnet (Holding Company). be of immense benefit to this flourishing Colony; and as it is Stations of the OLD South African Railways and what those station look like today. African Rail and Traction Services. This company was formed in 1861 and their endeavor was to Transwerk. In time, as new orders were placed with the local Union Carriage & Wagon concern in Nigel, Transvaal, these headlights would be modified with smaller lamp-housings. In this installment of the series he looks at various aspects of building and running one of … Mainline Imperial Brown C-34 Passenger Coach – HO. 150 Years of Rail in South Africa South Africa: Railway Country Although the South African interior is generally high-lying, it is traversable, but it is largely separated from the coastline by a high, mountainous escarpment. Note the beautifully spotless condition of the Class 5E1's allocated to top-link passenger train duty in those days. Metrorail Old railway sleeper bolts...160 in total... Read More. Read More. 1894 - Nederlandsche Zuid The interesting trackwork in the foreground of this shot of a type 4M set arriving in Durban shows a diamond crossing and symmetrical double slips. copyright Malcolm McCrow contact me: malcolm@mccrow.org.uk: Nearly all the photographs which appeared in the original EAR&H pages have been increased in size and resolution and the pages rearranged to reflect railway journeys, motive power depots, marine services and Kenya and Uganda Railways … comment. Propnet. In photo 25 we saw class 1E No 47. Marques and since renamed Maputo, in Mozambique). class 14 on the right, looking rather nice and respectable, is probably thinking “who is this new kid on the block – that’s our work”! serving the Southern African Market. the Wellington line was finally opened in 1865. In the next photo of this sequence, we see crowds again – this time out of interest to see these strange gear-whining boxes on wheels taking the place of a steam engine. I will continue with Part 2, turning our attention to Greyville Loco Depot. on to Springs in that same year. In South Africa and South West Africa, where the South African Railways operated, all early mainline railway construction took place working inland from harbours and ports. Siemens Mobility Signs Landmark MoU To Install Egypt’s First Ever High-Speed Rail System 20 January 2021 North Africa, Egypt. This train was used to attend wounded soldiers during the S A Boer War 1899-1902. After long Premium Download 3888 x 2592 px, 9.61 MB, $0.05 - $0.10 . The letters were quoted in detail in Peter Stow's treatise on Witbank-line motive power in. n interesting old photo showing the yard layout c 1904/5 near the NGR Central Station building as well as the NGR offices and train shed - right background. Presumably due to the shortage of motor coach train sets, even after the introduction of 4M and 5M's on the Pinetown line, a couple of links remained locomotive-hauled swing-door coach sets, hauled by 1E or 5E units, until about the mid-1970's. Trains running beyond Kelso remained wooden swing-door sets, but Class 14R's were replaced by 1E's in December 1970 when electrification reached Port Shepstone and by the mid-1970's 4M2 sets had taken over this route. This concludes the eight photos showing the transition from steam to electric haulage on the main line from Durban to Maritzburg. Old Blue Train GC 10-C Wooden Composite coach – HO. 4079 / 3046 at Johannesburg, South Africa. The date is 1969 and by this time the three 3rd. Transvaal, the Imperial Military Railways was established in 1900 Natal, Orange River and Transvaal. districts of the Western Cape. refineries to South Africa's main business centres. he restored facade of the old NGR Office building as it appears today. Freight Dynamics, Petronet, Metrorail, Propnet, Transtel, as well was officially the first working railway line in the Transvaal. class main-line saloons normally behind the locomotive had been replaced by suburban coaches, no doubt released by the arrival of new 4M EMU stock ex-Cape Town in the mid-to-late 1960’s. East African Railways Corporation: By 1969 EAR&H became the East African Railways Corporation and the railways and harbours became separate administrative entities. The train returned to Pretoria on 19 July. The honour of the first running railway in Southern Africa on behalf of various divisions within Transnet as well as for required for core business operations. Freightdynamics is a road transport business made up of two The NGR enjoyed the services of Mr D.A.Hendrie who was appointed Locomotive Superintendent in January 1903. 17. 35. Services Act, 1989" transformed the South African Transport South African Railway Stock Photos and Images (1,764) Narrow your search: Vectors | Black & white. Note the engine – it is an NGR Harbour Board saddle-tank 0-4-0 which was used to test the vacuum brakes of the train. This particular engine, in her original form as a class 16B and resplendent in royal blue livery, worked the 1934 Royal Train from Johannesburg to Klerksdorp. The South African Railways (SAR) was formed after the Unification of South Africa in 1910 by amalgamating all the previous railway authorities into a single railway system. In December 1904, John McConnachie, the Chairman of the Society and a District Superintendent of the Natal Government Railways (NGR), forwarded a suggestion by a colleague HC Richardson, … OLD SAR SAS EPAULETTES. war and renaming the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Here it stands in platform 5, waiting to move off to the staging yards at New Durban for its next assignment, which will be from the new Durban station. However, probably due to a lack of maintenance, the 4M sets became more and more unreliable, and eventually virtually every set had class 5E1 units permanently attached as motive power. In closing this chapter dealing with old Durban, I received very interesting information on the EMUs in use around Durban from Ashley Peter who was an operating clerk in the System Manager's Office during the period when steam traction was being replaced to an ever-increasing degree. Just visible behind the signal are Union Carriage saloons which would gradually replace the E-16s and C-34s. This The On the extreme left one can just make-out the layered roof of the old station canopy. The procession of local trains in and out of Durban provided plenty action for a railway photographer. My photo provides a lot of interest here at Lord’s Yard from both carriage and trackwork aspects. nother view of the Durban Station Yard also c 1904/5 shows a line-up of NGR passenger stock and six locomotives all from the NGR tank-locomotive era - some making their presence known with a bit of smoke. The subsequent shortage of serviceable coaches resulted in the locomotive-hauled service on the South Coast being reduced to just Kelso - Port Shepstone shuttles. Transvaal from Pretoria to Delagoa Bay (later named Lourenco In fact, 4M sets continued running in Durban until well into the 1980's - as can be seen from Brian's photo (No 93 above), which was taken on the night that Durban's old station closed towards the end of 1980. executed in three plants in South Africa in Durban (Bayhead), Paxton and Bourne: "Locomotives of the South African Railways" p 32). 32. Railway Company was formed in 1859, and its line from Point into Saved by Peter Gipson. Photos & text about mostly plinthed (on static display) and forgotten South African Steam Locomotives found all over South Africa - These pages seek to promote awareness and appreciation for these once living machines - Main source used to supply the text: Locomotives of the South African Railways published by Struik in 1985 - Authors: Leith Paxton & David Bourne. Talk about superpower! Here is the Drakensberg Express leaving Durban in the new light green livery with two 5E1s. This photo under the canopy of the NGR Central Station Building illustrates the layered roof that (it is said) was designed to shed snow. as the custodian of all property records for the Transnet Group By Services from a government department into a public company. the Boksburg coal mines was completed in 1890. of road transport and related activities. Dock Company. In 1920 the South African Railways placed thirty Class 12B steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. It has been joined with a New Site on Airfix Model Railways and Railway Kits. profits to the shareholders." Eventually the On April 1 1990, after 80 years of government and Construction on these lines began in the years from 1859 to 1887 in South Africa and from 1897 to 1908 in South West Africa. and established core businesses and discontinued some services Similar situations prevailed between Kelso - Port Shepstone and Stanger - Empangeni. Class GF Garratts were used extensively on the Verulam and other North Coast local passenger services. The coaching stock is all Union Carriage and Wagon-made, still carrying the cream band across the windows but this distinctive livery wouldn’t last much longer. Railway history is being made with the arrival of an A4 class locomotive to join siblings in celebration of the Mallard's record run. 5. By 16 December 1898 the Natal Government Railways also linked A year later, a 2-ft. gauge track was completed and put into operation between Umtali and the … A point we have frequently made is that nearly all the windows are open with passengers looking out of the windows. I recall, during WW2 when I lived in Durban, an elderly Hindu lady would often be seen standing in front of this board meditating. The two class 1E units on the left, are due to depart with what is assumed to be the first electrically-hauled main line passenger train out of Durban. As a 4M set runs in alongside platform 2, another stands in platform 4, its red marker still needing to be removed before departure. Eight more were placed in service in 1929, and another six in 1930. It should be noted that the New Cape Central Railway … Officially, the original Durban – Point railway opened on 26 June 1860. The occasion was possibly the State President's annual visit to his winter holiday home at Umdoni Park on the South Coast. photo south african railways - number plate of 2’ gauge loco no ngg11 class 2-6. All railways in South Africa finally became a unified state-owned railway system in 1916 when the Central South African Railways, the Cape Government Railways and the Natal Government Railways were all merged by an Act of Parliament. banker and merchant Mr. Harrison Watson, announced his company's the British Empire, the Union remained under the formal rule of An empty type 4M set arrives at platform 4 to work a train to Port Shepstone in May 1980. 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