The 150th anniversary of the first railways and the 10th anniversary of the Railroad Association – Allen A. Jorgensen

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The 150th anniversary of the first railways and the 10th anniversary of the Railroad Association of South Africa / compiled by Allen A. Jorgensen.
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Subject(s)
Railroads—South Africa—History [Browse]
Railroad Association of South Africa—History [Browse]
Contents
Introduction — Before the railways — Railways to the interior: Nuwekloof and the Hex River Pass into the Karoo — Linking Cape lines from the coast — Transvaal rails: the Rand tram and Witwatersrand — Branch line development to Union — Railways during the Anglo-Boer War and to Union — Pre-Union locomotives and rolling stock — Railway engineering and operating achievements: the first 50 years — Unification of South Africa’s railways — The first years of the SAR — The Depression and war years — Post war reconstruction — Decade of the 1970’s — The end of state protection and railway commercialization — Beyond 2010.
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FIRST EDITION.
Magnificent LARGE coffee-table size hardcopy, xiii, 344 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports.
Internally the pages are fresh, crisp, and clean, well bound, tight.
The dust wrapper is very good shows some signs of shelf wear, but now covered in a protective cellophane cover for extra protection this book could be passed off as “new” Lots of black and white photography and colour photographs. Internally the pages are fresh, white and crisp, See our OWN photograph of our copy for quality control.

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