1897 in South Africa
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Contents
Events
- April
- 21 – Sir Alfred Milner becomes High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony.
- May
- 5 – Port Elizabeth is flooded.
- Unknown date
- Bergville is established in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains in Natal.
Births
- 3 July – Ludwig Wybren Hiemstra, Afrikaans linguist and editor of the Bilingual Dictionary, is born in Lydenburg.
- 26 October – James Leonard Brierley Smith, ichthyologist, is born in Graaff Reinet.
Deaths
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Railways
Railway lines opened
- 13 March – Cape Western – Mafeking to Ramatlabama at the Bechuanaland border, 16 miles (25.7 kilometres).[1]
- 3 August – Transvaal – Frederikstad to Klerksdorp, 43 miles (69.2 kilometres).[1]
- 1 October – Cape Midland – Rosmead Junction to Middelburg, 7 miles 3 chains (11.3 kilometres).[2]
- 1 December – Natal – Isipingo to Park Rynie, 27 miles 48 chains (44.4 kilometres).[1]
- 3 December – Natal – Verulam to Tongaat, 12 miles (19.3 kilometres).[1]
- 15 December – Natal – Thornville Junction to Richmond, 17 miles 17 chains (27.7 kilometres).[1]
Locomotives
- Cape
Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Cape Government Railways (CGR):
- Six 4th Class 4-4-2 Atlantic type tender locomotives on the section from Kimberley southwards.[3]:57–59
- A third batch of fifty-five 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives. In 1912 they would become Class 6B on the South African Railways.[3]:46–47, 57[4][5][6]:41–44
- Transvaal
- The independent Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal Republic) purchases a 4-6-0 35 Tonner tank locomotive named Portuguese from the Lourenco Marques, Delagoa Bay and East Africa Railway in Mozambique.[3]:118–119
- Arthur Koppel, acting as agent, imports a number of Dickson built 0-4-2ST narrow gauge saddle tank steam locomotives to mines on the Witwatersrand.[6]:100–101
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 183, ref. no. 200954-13
- ↑ Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909.
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- ↑ Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 8, 12, 14, 30-31 (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)
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