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THE ULOLWE

SOUTH AFRICA – SUID-AFRIKA

A monthly railway research / historical publication

‘n Maandelikse spoorweg historiese en navorsing publikasie

Vol 2 No 10

Un-official / Nie Amptelik Everything to do with the

former SA Railways: i.e.

staff, photos, books, RMT,

stations, harbours, tugs,

SAR Police, SAA, catering,

pipelines, stamps, models,

rolling stock, armoured

trains, diagrams,

lighthouses, etc

Hennie Heymans, Pretoria, ZA

heymanshb@gmail.com

October 2011

Deftige Drywer by sy ewe Deftige Trein - Smart driver with his Smart Train

Soweto Business Express - [Foto: Deon Peter Gouws]

Patron - Les Pivnic - Beskermheer

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Contents

Welcome ...................................................................................................................................................... 5

Front Cover ................................................................................................................................................. 5

Editorial ....................................................................................................................................................... 5

Tourism................................................................................................................................................ 5

Commuters .......................................................................................................................................... 6

Long distance passengers ................................................................................................................. 6

Rail-transport ...................................................................................................................................... 6

1951 Main Story: Opening of first stage of the New Johannesburg Station ...................................... 7

Switch-over during week-end 18-20 August 1951 ........................................................................ 7

Relief .................................................................................................................................................... 8

Access to platforms ............................................................................................................................ 9

Vehicular traffic ................................................................................................................................ 10

Buildings and facilities .................................................................................................................... 10

E1101 with coach 40117 - Jacobus Marais ..................................................................................... 11

1968 Van Reenen: Escom Account - Hennie Heymans ................................................................... 12

Wepener’s Perambulations – Jacque Wepener [Welkom] .............................................................. 13

Photographs .......................................................................................................................................... 15

Bloemhof ........................................................................................................................................... 16

35-264 ................................................................................................................................................. 16

Bultfontein ......................................................................................................................................... 16

34-037 Friedesheim .......................................................................................................................... 18

Grasslands ......................................................................................................................................... 18

14-106 with the Blue Train at Leeudoringstad ............................................................................. 18

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Railway Archaeology - Mooizicht on the old Free State Railway line ..................................... 18

Theunissen ........................................................................................................................................ 23

Virginia .............................................................................................................................................. 23

Welkom: 35-257 ................................................................................................................................ 24

Smaldeel ............................................................................................................................................ 25

Railway History ....................................................................................................................................... 26

- CGR: Locomotive No 134 - Lourens Sturgeon........................................................................... 26

- NGR – 1908 Coaling at the Bluff (Wests) – Dana Kruger ......................................................... 26

- OVSS ................................................................................................................................................ 27

- NZASM: Pretoria Station - Hennie Heymans ............................................................................ 27

- Anglo Boer War: Leith Paxton shared the following pictures: ................................................ 30

- IMR .................................................................................................................................................. 32

- SAR .................................................................................................................................................. 32

Cattle truck GZ-5: Lourens Surgeon.............................................................................................. 32

1951 Dorman Long – A railway truck every 75 minutes ............................................................ 34

1951 SAR NG Beyer-Garratt ........................................................................................................... 35

NG Garratt - Taken from the 1951 advert ..................................................................................... 36

NG – SAR the Embryo of a new locomotive ................................................................................ 37

SAR E1 - Another early diagram ................................................................................................... 38

SAR NG – Rail Motor NO 501 .......................................................................................................... 38

Photographs .............................................................................................................................................. 39

Dave Parsons’ Album – Lourens Sturgeon ...................................................................................... 39

Witbank Loco - Leon Bezuidenhout .................................................................................................. 41

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Stations .................................................................................................................................................. 44

Boksburg – Dana Kruger ................................................................................................................. 44

Pentrich – Dana Kruger ................................................................................................................... 45

1951 – Filler: Orange Express ......................................................................................................... 45

1951 - Burgersdorp ........................................................................................................................... 46

1951 - Kalkvlakte .............................................................................................................................. 47

Railway People ......................................................................................................................................... 48

Book Shelf .................................................................................................................................................. 49

RMT - Cobus Holtzkampf ................................................................................................................ 50

South African Airways ............................................................................................................................ 50

Harbours.................................................................................................................................................... 50

Pipelines .................................................................................................................................................... 50

Catering Division ..................................................................................................................................... 50

SAR Police ................................................................................................................................................. 50

Railway News & Railway Sites .............................................................................................................. 50

South African Models .............................................................................................................................. 51

Suid-Afrikaanse modelle - Lourens Sturgeon .............................................................................. 51

Outside South Africa ....................................................................................................................... 52

Sheltam in Congo: Dries van der Merwe ...................................................................................... 52

Angola – CFB – Anton van Schalkwyk ......................................................................................... 53

Pandora’s Box ........................................................................................................................................... 54

Mail Bag ..................................................................................................................................................... 57

Indemnity / Vrywaring ........................................................................................................................... 57

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Goodbye Virginia! – J Wepener ..................................................................................................... 58

Next Issue .................................................................................................................................................. 58

Welcome

Welcome to this issue. It’s a mixed bag of all kinds of railway related subjects! Thanks for your

photographs, scans and articles.

Dankie vir u insette en bydrae in terme van berigte en foto’s.

Front Cover

Driver Deon Peter Gouws is the driver of the Soweto Business

Express. Here he is pictured next to his train – both appear

smart!

Op ons voorblad verskyn drywer Deon Peter Gouws – ‘n netjiese

man aan die stuur van ‘n netjiese trein!

Editorial

A worrying subject is the “strategic importance” of railways that is being neglected. We have to

remember that any society needs cheap, good and reliable transport. Two things are

transported – passengers/ commuters and goods, mainly minerals. As a layman it would appear

that the railways in South Africa are focussing on making money out of their mineral lines.

Passengers and commuters – including tourists – are not in the sights of the planners!

Tourism

We have a beautiful country, lovely weather with beautiful, scenic railway lines – just think

from Mossel Bay to Oudtshoorn, George to Knysna, Cape Town to Stellenbosch, Simons Town

to Cape Town, Cape Town to Darling, Oudtshoorn to Klipplaat via Toorwaterpoort, Waterval

Boven to Waterval Onder, Durban to Port Shepstone, the Alfred County Railway from Port

Shepstone inland by Narrow Gauge, Pretoria via Meersig to Magaliesburg, Bethlehem to

Ladysmith, Cape Town to Caledon!!! We have it all!!

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Commuters

Water and then gold (i.e. money), dictates where people will live! We have only three or four

places in South Africa where people live. Take Gauteng: It’s a flat country and about half of the

people in South Africa live here. We need a new commuter grid, lines from east to west and

from north to south in Gauteng. We need safe, fast, cheap and reliable transport! The next area

is Cape Town and environs which has a reasonable rail system; however it can be improved

upon. Durban-Pietermaritzburg is one metro-pole with room for improvement!

Our roads are over crowed and the metropolis is one big traffic jam. Improve the metro lines!

Work in conjunction with the taxi-industry.

Long distance passengers

Should a national crisis develop, how are we going to transport troops from one part of the

country to the other? Say we have a fuel crisis in the Middle East and we don’t have enough

fuel – petrol, diesel en paraffin. How will we transport five thousand troops from Pretoria to

Cape Town? Do the railways have a plan “B” or even a plan “C”?

We must think of preserving our steam locomotives, the few that are left, and the art and

science of fixing them! We should moth-ball our passenger coaches instead of selling them.

Rail-transport

We must bring back rail-transport. Branch-lines must be re-opened and stations brought to life

again. What are going to do when we have a world war lasting six years? How will we get coal

to the power stations as road transport is taking over this function? How will we get produce to

the markets without trains? How will we get livestock to the abattoirs without rail transport?

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1951 Main Story: Opening of first stage of the New

Johannesburg Station

With a-network of tracks laid and platforms and umbrella-roofing nearly completed, the one-

time famous sports arena at the old Wanderers is beginning to look like a modern railway

station

Switch-over during week-end 18-20 August 1951

It is proposed to open the first portion of Johannesburg's fourth new station on the same site in

59 years on Monday, August 20, 1951.

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(Sir Lionel Phillips, in his book "Some Reminiscences," states" the first train entered the Park

Station on September 15th, 1892.")

On the day of the opening of the first portion nearly 600 trains will run through the new station.

The Signalling Department will start with the installation of signals about a week before trains

are diverted from the old to the new tracks. The existing signal cabin will remain in use, but as a

result of the switch-over of the signals, a certain amount of hand-signalling will have to be used

at the old station and delays to trains are likely to occur.

The actual change-over from the existing (high level) station to the new (low level) portion of

the future station will start at about 8 p.m. on August 18, 1951, when the two north tracks of the

existing four main lines (down tracks, i.e. down slow and down main) will be cut at Twist Street

on the eastern side of the station and at Biccard Street on the west. The northernmost of these

tracks (down slow line) will be connected to the new down slow line already laid at the lower

level of the new station as quickly as possible and should be in operation by 6 a.m. on Sunday,

August 19. The second track will also be connected to its corresponding track at the lower level

and will be reopened to traffic by 8 a.m. on Sunday, August 19. The next stage of the work will

start immediately with the occupation and cutting of the two south (up) tracks east and west of

the old station.

These in turn will be switched in to their corresponding lines on the lower level and will be

open to traffic by 4 a.m. on Monday, August 20. Thus the service through the old station will be

reduced from 8 p.m. on the 18th and cease altogether at 8 a.m. on Sunday, August 19, while the

new station will commence partial operation at 6 a.m. on the 19th and should be in full

operation by 4 a.m. the following day.

At the east (Twist Street) end, this operation involves joining the old and new tracks at a

difference of level of 5 feet, which means that about 1,500 tons of earth will have to be excavated

and cleared during the time of occupation in a very congested area.

The switching of overhead electric traction wires will follow closely behind the work on the

relevant track below and the electric service will not be seriously delayed although auxiliary

steam working will, to a certain extent, be necessary.

Relief

With the inauguration of the first portion of Johannesburg's new station, the Administration

expects some relief in the problems which exist at the present station.

The first stage will not immediately provide additional tracks and platforms, as the present

tracks and platforms will fall out of use, but it will be possible to add two additional tracks and

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platforms about nine months after the first stage has been completed. When the new station is

finally completed it will have 14 platforms, excluding the van platforms, as against 8 on the old

station.

Practically the same facilities as those available previously will be provided on the new

platforms, e.g. umbrella roofing, adequate seating accommodation, train indicator boards,

main-line reservation plans and bookstalls. A suitable refreshment room is also being provided

near the platform from which the majority of main-line trains will depart.

An immediate advantage will be the provision of adequate accommodation for the handling of

parcels, baggage and milk.

This has been made possible by the construction of very large parcels depots adjacent to the

van-loading platforms and also adjacent to the through road and parking area for vehicles

dealing with this type of traffic. The size of the present parcels office at the old station is 17,000

sq. ft., while that of the new depots is 50,000 sq. ft., 2.lmost three times as big. At present,

parcels and baggage are handled in offices south of the station platforms and tracks, and the

bulk of this traffic has to be conveyed on barrows by means of lifts and overhead bridges to the

van platform, which is the most northerly platform in the present station. This cumbersome

procedure, together with the fact that the parcels offices themselves are totally inadequate for

the present parcels traffic, has led to considerable delays in the handling of parcels traffic, both

forwarded and received, at Johannesburg.

With the new method of working, the parcels and baggage will be off-loaded from road

vehicles on to the parcels depot platform. From there they will be taken through the parcels

depot direct to the vans which will be standing on the further side of the platform.

In addition, the adequate space provided will ensure more rapid sorting of parcels, and

eliminate the delays caused at present by parcels which have to be stacked so high at times that

it becomes almost impossible to sort them out.

Access to platforms

The main pedestrian access to the platforms after the completion of Stage I will be by means of

four overhead bridges.

These bridges are approximately at the level of Noord Street, and suburban passengers

approaching the new platforms from the south will cross over the site of the existing platforms

and tracks at the existing platform level, by means of walkways as illustrated in the key-plan

which is published with this article, and will not be required to use the existing subways.

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Vehicular traffic

Vehicular traffic will approach the station from Wanderers or Harrison Street and thence along

Leyds Street north of the new track, and not along Noord Street as at present. Adequate parking

areas within easy reach of the overhead bridges serving the platforms have been provided and

passengers' compartment luggage will be taken to the platforms by means of lifts and a separate

overhead bridge. There will thus be no vehicle access to platforms at this stage. Luggage

intended for the van and which has to be booked an hour before trains are due to leave, must be

taken down the spiral roadway at the north-east end of the new station to the parcels area

where booked luggage will be dealt with.

Buildings and facilities

In the initial stages the cloakroom, ticket office, the present catering facilities, bookstall and

waiting rooms in the concourse, as well as the enquiry and reservation offices will remain in the

existing station building.

An additional cloakroom will, however, be provided shortly next to the new parcels office.

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In a project of this nature a certain amount of inconvenience will result from the change-over

and an earnest appeal is made to the public to be patient and in this way to assist the

Administration in its efforts to provide a suitable station for Johannes burg.

The work of providing additional platforms and tracks will be proceeded with as rapidly as

possible after the opening of Stage I so as to reduce the distance suburban passengers will have

to walk to catch their trains.

At the same time, work will be continued on the Rissik and Harrison Street bridges, which will

run across the station to provide a direct link between the city and the northern suburbs, and a

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Filler photographs: GEA Garratt – Cobus Holtzkampf

E1101 with coach 40117 - Jacobus Marais

Jacobus writes: “Een van die laaste 5E's met die “padleer”-ruituig no 40117 tussen Lionsriver en

Dargle.”

• Dankie Jacobus!

1 SAR & H Magazine 1951-07 pp 454 – 457.

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1968 Van Reenen: Escom Account - Hennie Heymans

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Wepener’s Perambulations – Jacque Wepener [Welkom]

Hi all, sightings for the last couple of weeks.

At Whites the signals were displaying yellow aspects, indicating that something was on its way

in from the branch. Blue 34-409 on a load of mielies was caught at Mooiveld.

Spoornet maroon 34-067 was seen near Virginia with the return working of the Welgeleë pick-

up, running backside first.

RRL had hired blue 35-257 from Transnet in Kroonstad while their 31 class

was being repaired after a breakdown, the 31 is fine now and is often seen

on the ore haulage to Freddies 5 shaft.

Sheltam is not too busy anymore.

34-453, Spoornet maroon, on the Friedesheim pick-up, was seen shunting at the old Welkom

goods shed with timber and container wagons. There is new traffic from Welkom in the form of

containers from the mines to Bloemfontein, as the truck cards read. Some are open containers

filled with scrap metal. The timber pick-up now also does the containers.

Near Wesselsbron a Tierfontein bound load of mielies was seen behind Spoornet maroon 34-

067.

SAR Maroon E1537 & Spoornet maroon E1307 headed towards Kroonstad near

Virginia with a load of beer trucks, mielies, ammonia tankers, empty container wagons and

petrol tankers. While waiting for this train we noticed a snake along the track where we were

standing, it soon disappeared under a "salvo" of ballast stones, quite dangerous line siding in

spring in Africa.

Several of the closed down mines on the Free State Goldfields are being demolished, with them

the rails are also disappearing.

The Winburg branch has not had any more rails stolen.

In Bloemhof we got a yellow Hunslet Taylor diesel on a low bed truck heading to Richards Bay.

John Middleton has informed us she comes from Beef Master near Christiana.

Near Leeudoringstad blue E10-012 & 3x blue and red sisters headed south on a long load of ore

wagons. Close to Harrisburg orange E1446 & orange E1343 also headed south on a load of

containers. At Regina yet another southbound load headed past, this time Lime trucks behind

2x blue 10E's.

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At Virginia a load of petrol was waiting to proceed to Bloemfontein, up

front were orange E1478 Kaap & orange E1410. We found the remains of the

old main line's alignment in the form of a sandstone culvert here. Also a

visit was paid to the old Virginia station, now situated on the Glen Harmony

branch. Overgrown ruins and platforms remain.

Orange E1451 Kaap, orange E1xxx and Spoornet red E10-xxx (hauled dead)

headed through Bloemhof heading south at an incredible speed, in tow were 2x

Gulf red & Quaker Grey cabooses and a load of ore wagons.

Friedesheim produced orange 34-499 heading back to Welkom light after

shunting the Mondi timber siding.

Working with water has been removing the Eucalyptus trees in the area of

Welgeleë. This has unearthed the remains of the old Welgelegen station of

which a platform remains. We picked up an old bridge rivet at the old

Doringspruit bridge. From here we decided to go and explore the old Free

State mainline alignment. On one of Bruno Martin's maps he shows a station

Mooizight between Welgeleë and Theron on the old line. We followed the new

line all along the service road towards Theron until the old line could be

clearly seen joining the new line again. From here we walked back a

kilometer or so and found Mooizight. A 1928 coach screw was picked up. Even

a well remains as does some sandstone foundations. Close to Theunissen some

remains of old Smaldeel Junction could be found as well. We also paid a

visit to the remains of the old Theunissen station.

Blue 34-037 speeded through Hennenman on a load of Kroonstad bound mielies.

There have been plenty of problems with crew and loco shortages in our area,

at Mothusi a person committed suicide in front of the return working of the

Bothaville pick-up behind orange 34-xxx.

Plasserail are busy on both sides of Bloemhof, the "camp" is at the old goods shed with plenty of

yellow cabooses and tamping machines. Here orange 35-264, blue 35-240 & blue 35-470?? were

standing on a load of southbound NAY ballast hoppers. Near Grasslands a southbound load of

containers headed past behind orange E1499 & orange E1405. Leeudoringstad saw the

southbound Blue Train glide past at speed behind orange E14-106 & orange E14-xxx. (Dave

Fortune says the box shape of the 14E does remind him of the old

1E's!)

At Virginia the southbound signals' route indicator showed into the yard,

the northbound signals were also green. Soon orange 34-031 & orange 34-058

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pulled into the yard light locos en-route to Welgeleë, and then the southbound

signals turned green again. Blue E1357 & orange E1391 came past with a

load of DZ's, beer trucks and white Ammonium Nitrate wagons heading north.

Soon orange E120x Cape Western & orange sister headed south with a load of

mielies, petrol tankers and one well wagon in the consist. The Virginia area has gotten new

ballast.

Blue 34-037 was doing the Friedesheim timber shunt, while we were taking a look at the

shunting movement, RRL's 31 class came past en-route to Odendaalsrus.

Theunissen had a southbound Ammonium Nitrate train standing in the station,

the crew's time up, waiting for relief from Kroonstad. Motive power was

orange E1391, blue E1357 & orange E147? All the points' tumblers at the triangle have been

stolen. Security was organized to look after this train as we were told that there were explosives

loaded onto it as well.

At Bultfontein blue 34-406 returned light loco to Wesselsbron after finishing the shunting, here

she stood overnight, again - time up...

All crews greeted friendly with waves and hoots.

We received the YQ for the weed killer train in the Free State. She is

coming in from Noupoort then to Bloemfontein. From there to Kroonstad,

Sasolburg and back to Kroonstad. From Kroonstad to Westleigh, Vierfontein,

Bothaville, Rooiblom and Welkom. Then to Bultfontein and back to Kroonstad via Whites.

Kroonstad to Arlington, then to Heilbron and back to Arlington. Arlington to Marquard and

return to Arlington. Arlington to Bethlehem to Villiers and back to Bethlehem. Bethlehem to

Harrismith to Warden and return to Bethlehem. Then Bethlehem to Marseilles and Maseru,

return to Marseilles and then to Bloemfontein. The last leg is from Bloemfontein to Beaconsfield.

Greetings.

J & J.

Photographs

Here are some of the photographs that Jacque Wepener sent us:

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Bloemhof

35-264 Plasserail

Bultfontein

A lovely action shot of 34-406 at Bultfontein grain silos!

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34-406 at Bultfontein

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34-037 Friedesheim Grasslands

14-106 with the Blue Train at Leeudoringstad

Railway Archaeology - Mooizicht on the old Free State Railway line

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Theunissen

Virginia

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Welkom: 35-257

Welkom station, loco on loan to RRL from TFR Kroonstad

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Hi Hennie.

Ons het vandag so bietjie gaan "verken".

"Working with water" se manne is besig om Bloekom bome uit te kap in die Welgeleë

omgewing. So sien ons vandag dat die bome by ou Welgelegen stasie verwyder is - en daar kry

ons die ou platform!

So beweeg ons aan na die ou brug oor die Doringspruit. Hier tel ons ‘n brug klinknael van oor

die honderd jaar op! (‘n Kort dukke.) Daarna is ons al nuwe spoor langs vanaf Welgeleë tot

Theron, al soekend na Mooizicht. Naby Theron merk ons op dat die ou lyn weer by die nuwe

lyn aansluit. So loop ons omtrent ‘n kilometer terug met die ou lyn die veld in, al langs die ou

staal-“sleeper” draad en ballasklippe tot by Mooizicht. Hier tel ons n 1928 skroef op en nog ‘n

klinknael (lang een) van iets af, dalk van ‘n ou watertenk?? Ons kry tot ‘n put - dalk gebruik vir

water vir stoomlokomotiewe lank terug?? Of net drinkwater?

Van daar tot by Theunissen, of ou Smaldeel Junction.

Mens kan die ou lyn nog op BAIE plekke sien en volg, tot van die ou stasies staan nog - ek weet

nie of ek almal al vir jou gestuur het nie? Ja, geskiedenis van baie lank terug.

Mooi bly.

Jacque & John Wepener.

Smaldeel

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Railway History

- CGR: Locomotive No 134 - Lourens Sturgeon

- NGR – 1908 Coaling at the Bluff (Wests) – Dana Kruger

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- OVSS

- NZASM: Pretoria Station - Hennie Heymans

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- Anglo Boer War: Leith Paxton shared the following pictures:

NZASM, Pretoria: Franse Creusot of Long Tom op pad na Ladysmith

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Note the signaller on the ladder.

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- IMR

- SAR

Cattle truck GZ-5: Lourens Surgeon

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1951 Dorman Long – A railway truck every 75 minutes

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1951 SAR NG Beyer-Garratt

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NG Garratt - Taken from the 1951 advert:

Cylinders 12” Dia. x 16”

Total Heating Surface, including Superheater 1,067 sq. ft.

Water Capacity 1,825 gallons

Coal Capacity 4 tons

Grate Area 19.2 sq. ft.

Maximum Axleload 7 tons

Tractive Effort @ 75% B.P. 18,850 lb.

Tractive Effort @ 85% B.P 21,360 lb.

Total Weight in W.O. 62 tons

The South African Railways operate 793 miles of 2 ft. 0 in. gauge. In 1920 Beyer Peacock & Co.

designed and built the first three Beyer-Garratt locomotives for this gauge for service in Natal.

Since their introduction, successive orders have been placed in 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1937, 1938

and 1949. The seven locomotives referred to above brings the total of Garratt locomotives

operating on this gauge in South Africa to 39.

On many occasions the conversion of this narrow gauge to 3 ft. 6 in. has been under

consideration but the performance of these engines has enabled the maximum capacity to be

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obtained and consequently obviated large capital expenditure.

In Natal the line rises from sea level to over 4,600 feet by 1 in 33 grade combined with curves of

150 ft radius. On the Port Elizabeth-Avontuur line, 177 miles in length, in a 37 mile length with

1 in 40 gradient, there are 81 curves. Loads up to 470 tons are hauled on the more level sections.

BEYER-GARRATT LOCOMOTIVES SOLVE MANY DIFFICULT OPERATING PROBLEMS”

NG – SAR the Embryo of a new locomotive

I found the following scrap of paper in one my old second-hand books: Proposed NG Locos for

SWA by Herschel & Sohn

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SAR E1 - Another early diagram

SAR NG – Rail Motor NO 501

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Photographs

Dave Parsons’ Album – Lourens Sturgeon

Comment: I was fortunate to obtain some of the late Dave Parson’s photo albums during the

late 1990’s and I scanned all the photogrpahs I could lay my hands on. Lourens Sturgeon has

rescanned many of the old small photogrpahs with much better technology and here is the

result as depicted in the three pictures he sent me.

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Witbank Loco - Leon Bezuidenhout

Leon is not a “rail fan” he is a “history”-friend however Leon knows I am interested in “trains”

and he kindly shared these photographs he took during a recent visit to Witbank:

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Stations

Boksburg – Dana Kruger

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Pentrich – Dana Kruger

1951 – Filler: Orange Express

Comment: I guess; the Orange Express in Durban between Congella and Umbilo going under

the Francois Rd Bridge – HH.

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1951 - Burgersdorp

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One of my colleagues told me that he was stationed at Burgersdorp. A branch line of an

immense amount of empty SAR truck was/were staged there. When they had to investigate

stock theft cases the hiding of the skins and hides would be in one of the miles-long row empty

trucks. They and the suspect/ accused had then to search for the evidence, apparently quite an

effort!

1951 - Kalkvlakte

Jacque – what does it look like today? - HBH

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Railway People

I found this in one of my second hand books:

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Book Shelf

Standing over

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RMT - Cobus Holtzkampf

South African Airways

• Nothing to Report

Harbours

• Nothing to Report

Pipelines

• Nothing to Report

Catering Division

• Nothing to Report

SAR Police

• Nothing to Report

Railway News & Railway Sites

• Suid-Afrikaaanse Spoorweë / SA Railways / Ulolwe link:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/74709226744/

• http://grela.rrpicturearchives.net/ here you may view Col Andre Kritzinger’s excellent

photographs.

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• Col Andre Kritzinger also has a valuable site on all South Africa’s steam, electric and

diesel traction – see for e.g. South African Locomotives A-Z (Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Class_GMA_4-8-2%2B2-8-4 also see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_African_locomotive_classes

South African Models

Suid-Afrikaanse modelle - Lourens Sturgeon

Seeing is believing! Lourens and I had a chat about scale – look at this picture he sent in and

compare the height of the class 91 to the rest of the train!

More next month more on the models we are building. “We” are Lourens Sturgeon and I.

Lourens is a professional model builder and I am only an innocent, but interested, bystander.

We have built the “Etiro” a NG Dining Saloon for fun in HO-scale; however we are looking for

photographs and diagrams to illustrate our article.

Not right!! We have to redo the model

as we had very bad diagrams!

However it’s quite fun to build

something like this!

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Outside South Africa

Sheltam in Congo: Dries van der Merwe

Dries van der Merwe sent the following picture of former SAR cabooses that are now been used

in the Congo.

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Angola – CFB – Anton van Schalkwyk

CFB at Benguela

CFB at Benguela

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Benguela station

Pandora’s Box

Anything can come out of Pandora ’s Box, here are I few random pictures received this month:

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O Gaats!

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Mail Bag

Thank you for all the interesting correspondence and comments.

Indemnity / Vrywaring

The The Ulolwe contains various and sundry personal opinions of different correspondents and

the compiler of The Ulolwe cannot be held responsible for any of their comments.

Die Ulolwe bevat die uiteenlopende en diverse persoonlike menings van verskillende

korrespondente en die opsteller van Die Ulolwe kan nie vir enige deel van die inhoud daarvan

in sy persoonlike hoedanigheid verantwoordelik gehou word nie.

Enige advertensies of enige sake voortspruitend is tussen u en die ander party.

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Goodbye Virginia! – J Wepener

Next Issue

The next issue will be “The Ulolwe” (Zulu for the railways) Vol 2 No 11 and will be

published in November – Walk Tall! & Take care!

Stuur solank julle stories, briewe, foto’s en feite – Mooi loop!

Hennie Heymans – Pretoria, ZA. © 2011 heymanshb@gmail.com