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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

  • Commemorating the first public library in South Africa
  • The Eiffel Tower - Denounced, Accepted, Revered
  • The Krugersdorp Concentration Camp and Cemetery
  • The Birth of the Market Theatre
  • Valuable octant found on beach
  • A short history of the tram lines serving Pretoria and the Union Buildings via Church Square
  • Potchefstroom has lost one of its grand old buildings
  • The Original High Speed Rail - The Great Western Main Line between London & Bristol
  • Commemorating Sir Herbert Baker's last building in South Africa
  • A South African Maritime Catastrophe photographed
  • A Short History of the Jewish Community in Joburg
  • Visual Reflection on Pretoria’s early places of Worship - 1857 to the end of the 1920s
  • Spatial Development Plan must address heritage preservation in Johannesburg
  • Saving the grave of Bryanston's mystery man
  • The Lost World of Denver Station

From the Directory

  • Hardijzer Photographic Research Collection
  • African Centre for Heritage Activities (ACHA)
  • Joint Plans Committee (JPC)
  • Hearth Heritage
  • South African Military History Society
  • Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Parkview Residents Association (PRA)
  • Daveyton Heritage Society
  • Mira Fassler Kamstra - Retired
  • Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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