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Railway History

  • The Google Maps of 1930
  • The HS2 Dilemma: Learning from 200 Years of British Railway History
  • William Brounger - Forward into the Interior
  • William Brounger and the Cape Railways
  • An early South African Philaphotographologist - Frederick William Willis
  • The Original High Speed Rail - The Great Western Main Line between London & Bristol
  • George Pauling - Leading railway contractor in the development of Southern Africa
  • Bygone fortune seeker and rail restauranteur Theodor Fiebiger
  • The Saga of the planned major SAR & H Museum that never was
  • Forgotten Railway Sidings of the South Peninsula
  • John Frederick Bourne - Railwayman who left an Unexpected Legacy
  • Richard Thomas Hall - Railwayman in a Remote Part of the Colony
  • Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
  • John Scott Tucker - Ineffective Official who Abolished his own Post
  • Great Mechanical Engineers of the South African Railways & Harbours (Part 1)
  • An Unusual 1954 Railway Map of South Africa
  • Old photographs of the massive Braamfontein Coal Stage
  • Iconic Kaaimans River Railway Bridge Declared a Provincial Heritage Site
  • Railway Modelling, a hobby that lasts a lifetime
  • Electrification of Railways - Battle of the Systems

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From our Archive

  • Potchefstroom has lost one of its grand old buildings
  • A Short History of the Jewish Community in Joburg
  • Touch Joburg’s gold mining days at the Rand Club
  • How a Jewellery Theft Shaped South African Contract Law
  • Johannesburg's First Lift
  • Houghton, Orange Grove, Killarney, Mayfair and Greenside get blue plaques!
  • Mystery of Braamfontein's arched grave solved!
  • Interlude on the Narrow Gauge
  • Louis Michel Thibault - Ex-Mercenary whose Heritage Enriched the Cape
  • The Great Synagogue in Hillbrow
  • The Constitution Case(s)
  • The Missionary Beginnings of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
  • Remembering Sandton's Famous Stallion
  • Two gum trees, firemen and horse races
  • Robert Sobukwe - The shaping of an Africanist at Healdtown Mission Institute

From the Directory

  • Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA)
  • RE: DIGITAL
  • Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
  • Van Biljon Barnardo Architects
  • Simon Green - Anglo-Boer War Expert
  • Outeniqua Historical Society
  • Historical Society of Port Elizabeth
  • Adroit Architects & Interiors
  • South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA)
  • Braamfontein Spruit Trust
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