From this photograph, one can assume that it was taken at night to demonstrate the brightness of the Pyle National Arc Headlamp fitted to a CSAR 8th class. Although it gave an excellent light they did not enjoy a long life, replaced shortly after with the tungsten filament bulb that became standard on the SAR.
CSAR Class L2 later SAR Class 6C No 557 with passenger train at station platform.
Circa 1906. CSAR Type J2 No 20800-20807 first class coach for Limited Express (Chocolate & Cream). Later converted to SAR suburban coach Type O-10.
Interior of CSAR Type J1 parlour car.
Interior of CSAR type K1 Deluxe observation car later SAR Type C-10.
Railwaymen posing with CSAR Kitson-Meyer No 1000 later SAR Class KM No 1600.
CSAR Class 10 in workshop.
Railwaymen posing with a pair of CSAR Class E later SAR Class H1.
CSAR Class 10 in workshop.
CSAR Class 10 No 650 later SAR Class 10 No 732 in workshop.
CSAR Class 8, later SAR Class 8A and CSAR Class E, later SAR Class H1 in CSAR workshop.
Rack of CSAR Train Deluxe coaches with staff.
Crane truck.
CSAR type A1 No 24991 ex NZASM open goods wagon on top of CSAR type J2 No 53897 hopper coal wagon later SAR type A-2 with steam crane.
Crane truck.
Crane truck.
Crane truck.
Crane truck.
CSAR Class 11 No 701 built by North British Loco Co in 1903, later SAR Class 11 No 913.
NGR dining saloon interior.
Estcourt. NGR 'Reid Ten Wheeler' No 245 later SAR Class H with narrow gauge NGR 4-6-2T No 1 or No 2.
Kroonstad. Passenger train in station, headed by steam locomotive No 133.
Kroonstad. NGR Dubs 'A' No 133 later SAR Class A No 196 in station.
Kroonstad. Railwayman turning points with NGR Dubs leaving.
NGR Hunslet 4-6-2T No 2 built for use on the Estcourt - Weenen narrow gauge line.
Okiep - Port Nolloth narrow gauge railway. 1st class coach and open passenger wagon at station building.
Okiep - Port Nolloth narrow gauge railway. Two locomotives of the O'kiep Copper Company Limited built for 2'-6" gauge by Vulcan Iron Works. Sold to Tsumeb Corp circa 1944.
Okiep - Port Nolloth narrow gauge railway. Klipfontein, 1895. A goods train of the 'Little Railway' station.
Okiep - Port Nolloth narrow gauge railway. 1st class coach and open passenger wagon at station building.
SAR Type S-24 Hulse double-decker passenger suburban coach. Interior.
Purported to be South-West-Africa, no confirmation of this photo as being South African has ever emerged. A similar Orenstein & Koppel 40hp 600mm gauge engine was delivered to Mexico in 1905.
Mr Popkiss and two assistants on railway trolley.
Trolley on railway bridge with temporary repairs.
Elandshoek narrow gauge forest railway, circa 1926. Women and children at steam locomotive SAR Class NG1 No 40.
Elandshoek narrow gauge forest railway, circa 1926. Train hauled by SAR Class NG1 No 40 with large warehouse in background with 'Transvaal' painted on roof.
Durban. NGR boiler shop with NGR Dubs 'B' No 255 in right foreground, later SAR Class G No 202.
SAR Class 24 No 1948 in station.
SAR Class 24 No 3607.
SAR Class 24 No 3607.
1903. NGR corridor train headed by NGR 'Reid Ten Wheeler' later SAR Class H steaming into station.
Train accident on the Zeerust line between locomotives No 2431 and 2302.
CGR Class 8 No 790, became SAR Class 8D No 1225. Built in 1903.
Bloemfontein. Class 8D No 1223 superheated with inside admission piston valves.
Bloemfontein, 1914. Armoured coach with bullet holes.
Cape Town, 1903. Inside of station with passenger train at platform.
Potchefstroom, 1906. CSAR Class 6L-2 No 361 at on top of coaling station, later SAR Class 6C.
Cape 6th Class, later SAR Class 6B manufactured at the Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Glasgow.
Cape Town, 1874. Station interior with R & W Hawthorn & Co No. 10 'Ebden' with a passenger train at platform.
NGR narrow gauge closed goods wagon, later SAR type NG 8-N-1, later NG FB-1.
SAR narrow gauge railcar RM501, original number RM NG 1, with four men.
Omaruru, South-West Africa, 11 March 1934. SAR Class NG5 navigating washaway at Omaruru River.
Mount Edgecombe. John Fowler & Co 0-4-2T narrow gauge cane locomotive on the Natal Estates.
CSAR Class 10-1 No 661 later SAR Class 10 No 743.
CSAR Class 10. Technical details from the North British Locomotive Company Limited.
NGR "Minister's Saloon" No 2. Later SAR PVT No 27.
CSAR type J2 high-sided coal hopper wagon later SAR type A-2.
CSAR type J2 high-sided coal hopper wagon later SAR type A-2 loaded with timber.
CSAR type J No 53632 high-sided coal hopper wagon later SAR type A-5.
CSAR type H goods wagon later SAR tpe B-12.
CSAR First Class type K No 20250 Train De Luxe. Later SAR C-11.
Permanent Way Inspector with 1928 Morris inspection vehicle.
Cape Town. Steam locomotives at station showing a mainline train on the left behind CGR 4th Class 'Hatrack' and a Wynberg train behind a CGR 3rd Class on the right.
Germiston. Goods yard.
Germiston, 21 April 1931. Goods yard.
Cape Town, 1 December 1905. The Reopening of the Sea Point Line, train hauled by Cape 2nd Class 4-4-0T No18 'Wynberg Tank'.
Cape Town, 1893. Station platforms with a mainline train ready to depart behind a CGR 6th Class on the left.
Port Elizabeth, 26 November 1928. Last day of operation of Walmer Branch hauled by a SAR Class NG9.
Pietersburg, 31 May 1899. Arrival of the first train.
Replica of first carriage used in Natal in 1860.
Estcourt, circa 1909. A train hauled by a NGR 'Reid Tenwheeler' assisted by a pair of NGR 'Dubs B' engines battle the grade on the Escourt - Highlands bank.
Johannesburg, 1900. Train headed by NZASM 46 Tonner No 200 'Wetenschap' at Park Station.
Johannesburg. Train headed by a NZASM 40 Tonner No 55 'Van Riebeeck' at Park station.
Johannesburg. Train headed by a NZASM 46 Tonner, later SAR Class B at Park station.
Durban, 1 December 1936. Decorated SAR Class 1E at the opening of the Durban - Cato Ridge electrification.
Durban, 1 December 1936. Decorated SAR Class 1E at the opening of the Durban - Cato Ridge electrification.
Port Elizabeth, December 1906. Walmer suburban train departs the terminus in Station Street behind one of the two Bagnall 4-6-2T's, passing a few dray carts as it goes.
SAR 2nd class passenger coach No 8655, the first mainline passenger carriage to be manufactured in South Africa.
Johannesburg, 9 to 18 March 1922. Soldiers behind sandbags onSAR type D-8 drop sided wagon.
Wembley, 1924. Dining saloon 'Umhlatuzi' with staff at British Empire Exhibition.
Krugersdorp, 1 August 1940. Driver JM Rautenbach and Fireman F de Villiers at the opening of the new station with SAR Class 8C No 1165.
1874. Shunting engines for the CGR built by Hunslet Engine Co.
East London. Ex East London No 1028 built by Hunslet Engine. Used on construction of Buffalo Harbour.
Steam locomotive 'Stormberg', one of a pair ordered by the Public Works from Hunslet Engine Co but delivered to SAR due to motive power shortage in 1916.
Plaque with technical information on preserved 'Stormberg' locomotive.
'Stormberg' locomotive preserved and mounted.
Molteno. Steam locomotive covered in armour plating. (Steve Matthysen)
Manila Railroad Company locomotive later SAR Class K No 161.
SAR locomotive Class K No 352.
SAR locomotive Class K No 353.
CSAR Class F No 262 "Chocolate box" locomotive.
NGR Dubs 'B' No 250 built by North British Locomotive Co in 1904, later SAR Class G No 197.
SAR Class 14A No 1576 built by North British Loco in 1914.
Johannesburg. Class KM locomotive at station.
SAR Class DS No 513 built by AEG.
Durban. SAR Class DS No D513 first used on the De Aar-SWA line but for shunting.
CSAR 2-8-2 Class 11 No 729, placed in service in 1904, later SAR Class 11.
