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Peter Ball

Dean Goods: The Little Engine That Went To War
The Contemporary Accounts of the Victorian Railways of Britain
Marylebone - The Station that Refused to Die
Oxford to Cambridge: The Revival of Britain's Varsity Line
The HS2 Dilemma: Learning from 200 Years of British Railway History
The rise of railway preservation in Britain
The Original High Speed Rail - The Great Western Main Line between London & Bristol
Winston’s War – The Valiant Years
Mr. Bellman’s Hangar
Separated by a Common Language
Railway Modelling, a hobby that lasts a lifetime
The British Hit Parade Before the Beatles
Electrification of Railways - Battle of the Systems
South African Railways – the years of transition from steam
The Mainline Railway Termini of London
London Buses were Red except when they were Green
Dr. Beeching, Hero or Villain?
From Drawing Boards to Building Information Modelling (BIM)
STEEL, When Iron Came of Age
The Railway that put the World on Track

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From our Archive

  • Ancestors On the Wall - Early South African Wall-Mounted Photographic Portraits
  • Visiting the Historic Middelburg Cemetery (Mpumalanga)
  • Clive Chipkin pays tribute to Robin Fee
  • The Klass Brothers - seven storeys of cultural history
  • Diligently photographed - An East London Victorian Corner House
  • Victorian-era Brothel Tokens of South Africa
  • SA removes sites from the UNESCO world heritage tentative list
  • "I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over" - The capture of Nelson Mandela 5 August 1962
  • The Queens Road Commune - Living in a grand Parktown mansion in the 1970s
  • Victorian-era Banknotes of Towns of the South Western Cape
  • Remembering the First Trans-Africa Flight
  • Crack Trains of South Africa - Then and Now
  • Why we should not waste effort maintaining this important heritage site
  • Hastings Ndlovu's day too
  • The Legacy of Dr Arthur David Bensusan

From the Directory

  • Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA)
  • Sibambene Bolt Heritage Construction
  • South African Naval Heritage Trust (NHT)
  • Shaw Badenhorst - Researcher
  • The Workplace Agency
  • The South African Archaeological Society (ArchSoc)
  • Greenside Residents Association (GRA)
  • Beyond Heritage
  • Parnell Bruce and Classique Edge Racing
  • Emmett Architects
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