12 April – Transvaal – Dunswart to Apex deviation, 4 miles 16 chains (6.8 kilometres).[2]
21 May – Natal – Queen's Bridge to Duff's Road deviation, 5 miles 55 chains (9.2 kilometres).[2]
8 July – Natal –
Canelands, Umdloti to Maidstone deviation, 6 miles 74 chains (11.1 kilometres).[2]
6 August – Cape –
Kamfersdam to Winter's Rush, 34 miles 29 chains (55.3 kilometres).[2]
9 August – Cape –
Belmont to
Douglas, 53 miles 22 chains (85.7 kilometres).[2]
30 October – Transvaal – Settlers to Tuinplaas, 13 miles 22 chains (21.4 kilometres).[2]
Locomotives
The New Cape Central Railway places two
2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated steam locomotives in service. They will be designated
Class GK on the South African Railways (SAR) in 1925.[3][4][5]
Major Frank Dutton, SAR Signal Engineer and the Motor Transport Superintendent, conducts trials with a prototype petrol-paraffin powered
Dutton road-rail tractor.[5][6]
Mr. C. Lawson, Superintendent Mechanical of the SAR, experiments with gas-electric motive power and constructs a single experimental producer gas-electric locomotive. The locomotive remains in service for several years but the gas-electric concept will eventually be superseded by diesel-electric traction.[5][6][7]
^
abcdefStatement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 188, ref. no. 200954-13
^Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England:
David & Charles. pp. 79–80.
ISBN978-0-7153-5382-0.
^
abcPaxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 93–94, 118–119.
ISBN0869772112.
^
abEspitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1945). The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter VII - South African Railways (Continued). South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, October 1945. pp. 782-783.
^Heymans, Brig. H.B.; Parsley, Dr. G.M.J. (2000).The SAR Experimental Suction Gas-Electric Locomotive. Paper dated 28 September 2000.
12 April – Transvaal – Dunswart to Apex deviation, 4 miles 16 chains (6.8 kilometres).[2]
21 May – Natal – Queen's Bridge to Duff's Road deviation, 5 miles 55 chains (9.2 kilometres).[2]
8 July – Natal –
Canelands, Umdloti to Maidstone deviation, 6 miles 74 chains (11.1 kilometres).[2]
6 August – Cape –
Kamfersdam to Winter's Rush, 34 miles 29 chains (55.3 kilometres).[2]
9 August – Cape –
Belmont to
Douglas, 53 miles 22 chains (85.7 kilometres).[2]
30 October – Transvaal – Settlers to Tuinplaas, 13 miles 22 chains (21.4 kilometres).[2]
Locomotives
The New Cape Central Railway places two
2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated steam locomotives in service. They will be designated
Class GK on the South African Railways (SAR) in 1925.[3][4][5]
Major Frank Dutton, SAR Signal Engineer and the Motor Transport Superintendent, conducts trials with a prototype petrol-paraffin powered
Dutton road-rail tractor.[5][6]
Mr. C. Lawson, Superintendent Mechanical of the SAR, experiments with gas-electric motive power and constructs a single experimental producer gas-electric locomotive. The locomotive remains in service for several years but the gas-electric concept will eventually be superseded by diesel-electric traction.[5][6][7]
^
abcdefStatement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 188, ref. no. 200954-13
^Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England:
David & Charles. pp. 79–80.
ISBN978-0-7153-5382-0.
^
abcPaxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 93–94, 118–119.
ISBN0869772112.
^
abEspitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1945). The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter VII - South African Railways (Continued). South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, October 1945. pp. 782-783.
^Heymans, Brig. H.B.; Parsley, Dr. G.M.J. (2000).The SAR Experimental Suction Gas-Electric Locomotive. Paper dated 28 September 2000.