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LNER Class A4 4488 Union of South Africa. LNER Class A4 4488. Union of South Africa. Union of South Africa pulls 2012 excursion train near Deeping St Nicholas. 60009 Union of South Africa is a LNER Class A4 steam locomotive built at Doncaster Works on 16 April 1937. It is one of six surviving A4s. Its mainline certification expired in April 2020.
Valley of a Thousand Hills Valley of a Thousand Hills Long-axis direction West-East Geography Country South Africa Coordinates 29°46′30″S 30°42′38″E / 29.7749°S 30.7105°E / -29.7749; 30.7105 Traversed by R103 View from Ekukhanyeni into the Mdloti River valley The Valley of a Thousand Hills is a valley between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, South Africa. The Umgeni River ...
Gillitts Park is a small residential suburb of Durban, South Africa. Comprising the northern half of the suburb of Gillitts, Gillitts Park is a green belt residential area with almost no commercial development and no industrial development. In its entirety, Gillitts Park consists of about 900 homes in freehold, residential sites with a minimum ...
Durban ( / ˈdɜːrbən / DUR-bən; Zulu: eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay, lagoon") [ a] is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Situated on the east coast of South Africa, on the Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean, Durban is South Africa's busiest ...
The Umgeni Steam Railway is a 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm) gauge heritage railway at Inchanga, near Durban. The Durban to Pietermaritzburg line was built in the 1880s; it runs through a 53 metres (174 ft) long tunnel at Drummond built in 1878, which is probably the oldest tunnel in use today in South Africa. In 1982, a small Dubs locomotive was ...
South African Class 15CA 4-8-2. Water cap. The South African Railways Class 15CA 4-8-2 of 1926 was a steam locomotive. In 1926, the South African Railways placed 23 Class 15CA steam locomotives with a 4-8-2 Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. Another 61 engines were ordered and delivered from three manufacturers in 1929 and 1930.
A Metrorail train pulling out of Kalk Bay station near Cape Town. Rail transport in South Africa is an important element of the country's transport infrastructure. All major cities are connected by rail, and South Africa's railway system is the most highly developed in Africa. [ 1] The South African rail industry is publicly owned .
This is a list of suburbs in the Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality which includes the city of Durban and surrounding towns. Some of these are commonly used names for regions, collections of suburbs (e.g. Berea, Bluff, Overport), or formerly independent towns that are themselves composed of suburbs (e.g. Kingsburgh, Queensburgh, Westville) and do not necessarily correspond to specific legal ...