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Pietermaritzburg, 1946. Woman weaving carpet on modern loom.

Pietermaritzburg, 1946. Albert Falls.

"Pietermaritzburg district, 1942. Valley of a Thousand Hills."

"Pietermaritzburg, 1942. Zulu women."

"Pietermaritzburg, 1942. Rickshaw."

"Pietermaritzburg, 1942. Zulu women."

Pietermaritzburg, 1939. New magistrates court.

Pietermaritzburg, 1938. SAR petrol tank wagon Type XP-6.

Pietermaritzburg, 1938. SAR petrol tank wagon Type XP-6, corrugated iron cover and other items not yet fitted.

Pietermaritzburg, 1938. SAR Class ES1 No E125.

Pietermaritzburg, 1938. SAR Class ES1 being built in electrical locomotive erection shed.

Pietermaritzburg, 1936. SAA Junkers Ju-52 ZS-AFD 'Sir Benjamin d’Urban' in flight.

Pietermaritzburg, 1936. SAA Junkers Ju-52 ZS-AFD 'Sir Benjamin d’Urban' in flight over wattle plantations.

1936. SAR Albion bus No 1114. Note this is a doctored photo, see original version PB2837_01

Pietermaritzburg, 1936. SAR Class ES1 No E97.

Pietermaritzburg, 1936. Interior of mechanical workshop.

Pietermaritzburg, 1936. Interior of mechanical workshop showing SAR type DZ-4 No 13066 and SAR type E-13 No 25450 ex CSAR type A1 ex NZASM.

Pietermaritzburg, 1934. Mayor's garden.

Pietermaritzburg, 1934. Boating.

Pietermaritzburg, 1927. Town hall.

Pietermaritzburg, 1926. SAR Class 1E No E35.

Pietermaritzburg, 1 December 1880. Arrival of first train from Durban. (Sketch)

Pietermaritzburg district. SAR Class 1E mail train on the Glencoe line.

Pietermaritzburg district. Aerial view of the Valley of a Thousand hills.

Pietermaritzburg district, 1919. The new 27m high Mkondeni embankment between Pentrich and Umlaas Road.

Pietermaritzburg district. Town Hill tunnel between Teteleku and Ketelfontein stations.

Pietermaritzburg district, 1916. Cutting between Rushbrook Halt (later Prestbury) and Boughton. This double-track alignment, opened on 28 May 1916, was built from Pietermaritzburg to Boughton, from where the deviation around Town Hill continued as a single track.

Pietermaritzburg, 1916. A section of the "Town Hill Deviation", opened in 1916 between Pietermaritzburg and Cedara (first named Rietspruit). It provided an easier graded route on 1 in 50 as opposed to the punishing 1 in 30 gradient of the 1884 alignment between Pietermaritzburg and Howick (later Merrivale). This alignment was in turn replaced in 1960 with the opening of the 6023-metre Cedara twin tunnels. A new Cedara Station was built at the north tunnel portals, and the old Cedara was renamed Aradec.

Pietermaritzburg district. Bridge built over the Umsindusi River near Mason's Mill between Pentrich and Pietermaritzburg railway station comprising a 30,8-metre steel girder span flanked by two 3,05 concrete arches and a 12,2-metre span over Edendale Road. This 5,2 km deviation was brought into use on 8 July 1906 and replaced the original alignment opened in 1880 between the earlier Umsindusi Station and Pietermaritzburg Station. (This new alignment linked at Napier Junction to the Cape-Natal line opened in 1904 between Pietermaritzburg and Elandskop.) The doubling of this section was opened first from Pietermaritzburg to Napier Junction on 23 May 1915 and from Napier Junction to Pentrich on 20 August 1916. A section of this alignment was replaced when the marshalling yard was built in 1926.