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Cape Town, 1896. Salt River station and railway workshop looking north.

Cape Town, 1896. Salt River station.

Cape Town, 1876. Station building being erected.

Cape Town. CGR 'Governor's Coach' built at Salt River, later modified with clerestory roof and numbered Pvt No 3 on SAR, later renumbered No 64 in 1925.

Cape Town. 'Sir Charles Elliot' in Table Bay Harbour.

Cape Town, 1872. Salt River railway works.

Cape Town. Paarden Eiland locomotive shed with watering points on overhead manifold and an unidentified SAR Class 6 on the left.

Cape Town. View over railway yard with Signal Hill in the background.

Cape Town, 17 September 1860. Tipping the first truck of stone for the breakwater of Table Bay Harbour by HRH Prince Alfred. Reproduction of painting by Thomas Bowler.

Cape Town, 17 September 1860. Tipping the first truck of stone for the breakwater of Table Bay Harbour by HRH Prince Alfred. Sketch.

Cape Town, 1893. General plan of Table Bay Harbour by Henry Thwaites, Resident Engineer.

Cape Town. Plan of Table Bay Harbour including Robben Island.

Cape Town, 10 October 1943. Floating pontoon constructed during World War Two.

Cape Town. View over Table Bay Harbour with many sailing vessels.

Cape Town. Early sketch of aerial view of Table Bay Harbour.

Cape Town. View over Table Bay Harbour.

Cape Town. View over Table Bay Harbour with Signal Hill in background.

Cape Town. Table Bay Harbour scene with wagonloads in foreground and large sailing vessels in the distance.

Cape Town, July 1898. CGR Traffic Manager A Difford and staff. (Fine and Davis)

Cape Town, 1927. Central cabin, signallling and power operated points.

Cape Town. Captain White, Port Captain Table Bay Harbour, retired November 1951.

Cape Town. Table Bay Harbour Fire Brigade.

Cape Town, 1870. Watercolour painting of Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town and Table Mountain.

Cape Town, 1895. Excavation for docks in Table Bay Harbour.

Cape Town, 1888. Station building.

Cape Town, 1897. Station building.

Cape Town, 24 December 1965. Launching of 'Johan Hugo'.

Cape Town, 24 December 1965. Launching of 'Johan Hugo'. General arrangement.

Cape Town. Ships in Table Bay Harbour.

Ship at large wooden jetty in Table Bay Harbour.

Cape Town, 1890. Table Bay Harbour.

Cape Town. Mowbray railway station.

Cape Town. Great storm in Table Bay. Reproduction of oil painting.

Cape Town. Cape cart with three horses.

Cape Town. Cape cart with horse.

Cape Town. Sedan chair used in Cape Colony in earlier times, in Koopmans de Wet House.

Cape Town, 1903. Customers queuing at station season ticket office.

Cape Town, 1903. Inside of station with passenger train at platform.

Cape Town, 1903. Decorated station building for visit of Mr Chamberlain.

Cape Town, 1887. Harbour board offices in Adderley Street.

Cape Town, circa 1945. Minister of Transport FC Sturrock, Sir Helperus Andrias 'Pierre' van Ryneveld and General Manager G Marshall Clark leaving SAA Douglas DC-4 ZS-AUA.

Cape Town. SAA Douglas DC-4 ZS-AUA 'Tafelberg' on runway.

Cape Town. SAA Douglas DC-4 ZS-AUA 'Tafelberg' on runway with Table Mountain as background.

Cape Town. SAA Douglas DC-4 ZS-AUA 'Tafelberg' on runway.

Cape Town, 1874. Station interior with R & W Hawthorn & Co No. 10 'Ebden' with a passenger train at platform.

Cape Town. Railway and harbour band with bandmaster EC Bishton.

Cape Town. Table Bay Harbour with Table Mountain in the background.

Cape Town - Wellington railway, 31 March 1859. Spade and wheelbarrow used by Sir George Grey to turn the first sod of the Cape - Wellington railway.

Cape Town - Wellington railway, 1857. Survey camp with EG Brounger with foot on spade near centre.

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.

Cape Town, 1870. Table Bay Harbour. From the Illustrated London News, 12 November 1870.

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.

Cape Town. Train in station.

Cape Town, June 1902. Decorated station for festivities during the coronation of King Edward VII.

Cape Town, 1902. Claremont station on the Cape Town - Simonstown line.

Cape Town, 22 June 1897. Decorated station building for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Cape Town. Start of the Cape Town - Wellington railway.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Underframe shop.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Pattern shop.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Carriage shop.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Carriage and wagon yard.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Hydraulic press.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Traverser yard.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Sawmill.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Foundry.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Engine shop extension.

Cape Town. Salt River workshop. Wagon construction yard.

Cape Town, 1859. Mouille Point lighthouse.

Cape Town, circa 1864. Claremont station at the time when the Cape Town - Wynberg line was opened.

Cape Town. Claremont station.

Cape Town, circa 1864. Newlands station.

Cape Town. Salt River station.

Cape Town, 1862. First railway station.

Cape Town, 1883. Station yard.

Cape Town, 1859. Mouille Point lighthouse.

Cape Town. Fruit in the pre-cooling sheds.

Cottage erected in 1857 by the Cape Town - Wellington and Docks Railway Company Limited, the first railway building.

Cape Town. SAR Class 15A No 1805.

Cape Town. SAR Class 15A.

Cape Town. SAR Class 15A No 1857.

Cape Town. First locomotive in South Africa imported September 1859 by the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company, now mounted on the Cape Town Station concourse.