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Railway History

  • Blood Sweat and Beers - The Story of the Railway Navvy
  • Chunnel Vision - A long held dream
  • Sir William Hoy (1868-1930) - His life beyond Hermanus
  • Crack Trains of South Africa - Then and Now
  • The Scheffel Bogie and the Rail Gauge
  • The Port Elizabeth Railway Station
  • South Africa is an ideal destination for heritage railway tourism
  • Roaming the Western Cape Rails
  • The Railway Link to Namibia
  • Tunnel at Waterval Boven - Probably the best-known and most famous of all NZASM structures
  • Spanish Train and Other Stories - Some thoughts on the AFRO 4000 Saga
  • NZASM Structures of the Southern Line
  • NZASM Structures of the Rand Tram
  • The Cape to Cairo Railway Dream
  • Montagu Pass - The Final Link
  • The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe - Something to chew on
  • Interlude on the Narrow Gauge
  • The Big Fiery Giant - The Story of the Beyer-Garratt Locomotive
  • The Tanzania - Zambia Railway
  • Benguela - More than just a current

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From our Archive

  • Touch Joburg’s gold mining days at the Rand Club
  • One day back in '63 at Liliesleaf
  • Sandton Shimmers at Night
  • A horologist, but much more
  • Clarendon Circle - Then and Now
  • Our Huguenot Heritage
  • The first re-discovery of gold in the Transvaal
  • The Early History of Tara Sandton
  • They wanted to demolish the Durban Railway Station
  • Joburg's oldest surviving bank building is coming back to life!
  • South Africa's Famous Ox-Tamer
  • The story of the largest elephant tusks to ever come out of Kenya
  • The recovery of an element of Cape Town’s lost transportation heritage
  • Languedoc, the workers’ village built by Cecil Rhodes
  • The Scottish Horse Memorial - The story behind one of Johannesburg's earliest war memorials

From the Directory

  • Clydesdale Village Association
  • Friends of the Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site
  • Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa (ILASA)
  • LM Architects and Heritage Consultants
  • Louwkul Design Lab
  • Johan van Heerden - Researcher
  • The Conservation Studio - Albany Museum
  • Erica Davison THL
  • Keitumetse Mangate Production Company
  • NGT Infraco
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