Author: Holland, D.F.
Title: Steam Locomotives of the South African Railroads. (Railways). Volume 1: 1859-1910.
Description: Drake Publishers. New York 1972. Chocolate cloth boards. 144pp illustrated 4to. No inscriptions. VG+ in matching protected dustwrapper. ISBN: 9780877491460 Records the history of the railroads up until Union in 1910. Includes the Capetown-Wellington Railway, Port Alfred locomotives, Port Elizabeth & East London, The Natal Railway, the 3' 6" gauge: the Cape Government Railways (CGR), Metropolitan & Suburban, New Cape Central (NCCR) & Kowie Railways, The Natal Government Railway (NGR), The Orange Free State Railways (OVGS), De Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikan Spoorweg Maatschappij (NZASM), The Pretoria-Pietersburg (PPR), Selati and Ermelo Railways, the Imperial Military Railways (IMR) of the Anglo-Boer War, and the Central African Railways (CSAR). Appendix of Chief Mechanical Engineers and Locomotive Superintendents. Well illustrated with plates and dimensioned drawings.

Keywords: railways railroads locomotives south southern africa african steam capetown-wellington railway port alfred port elizabeth east London, natal railway, cape government railways metropolitan & suburban new cape central kowie railways natal government railway


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