1926 in South Africa

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1926
in
South Africa

Decades:
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1926 in South Africa.

Incumbents[edit]

Events[edit]

March
October

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Railways[edit]

Class 15CA
Class FD
Class 17

Railway lines opened[edit]

  • 18 January – Transvaal – Villiers, Free State to Grootvlei, 19 miles 39 chains (31.4 kilometres).[1]
  • 7 June – Free State – Harrismith to Warden, 35 miles 33 chains (57.0 kilometres).[1]
  • 18 August – Cape – Upington to Kakamas (Narrow gauge), 54 miles 63 chains (88.2 kilometres).[1]
  • 1 September – Cape – Addo to Sunland, 6 miles 1 chain (9.7 kilometres).[1]
  • 15 September – Natal – Mtubatuba to Candover, 110 miles 70 chains (178.4 kilometres).[1]
  • 19 November – Cape – Katberg to Seymour (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 30 chains (15.1 kilometres).[1]
  • 22 November – Transvaal – Citrus to Plaston, 17 miles 48 chains (28.3 kilometres).[1]
  • 8 December – Cape – Klawer to Landplaas, 50 miles 37 chains (81.2 kilometres).[1]

Locomotives[edit]

Three Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13
  2. ^ a b c Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 26–27, 61–62, 68, 97. ISBN 0869772112.
  3. ^ a b Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 46, 49–51. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
  4. ^ South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2'0" & 3'6" Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended