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1903
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South Africa

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Decades:
See also:

Events

February
March
  • 12 – Andries Dreyer, an archivist of the Dutch Reformed Church, is ordained as a missionary of the congregation for the Hanover Street area in Cape Town.
May
  • 21 – The first contingent of Chinese labourers leave China to work on the Witwatersrand gold mines.
June
  • 4 – The Indian Opinion is started by Mahatma Gandhi with Mansukhlal Nazar as editor.
Unknown date
  • The County of Pembroke, a British cargo ship, is shipwrecked near Port Elizabeth.

Births

Deaths

  • 13 March – General David Johannes Joubert (Ou Kat), a South African explorer to East Africa, dies of malaria near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Railways

Railway lines opened

  • 19 February – Cape Central – Swellendam to Riversdale, 64 miles (103.0 kilometres).[1]
  • 28 February – Cape Western – Kalbaskraal to Hopefield (Narrow gauge), 46 miles 79 chains (75.6 kilometres).[2]
  • 22 March – Free State – Sannaspos to Thaba 'Nchu, 17 miles 3 chains (27.4 kilometres).[1]
  • 1 April – Free State – Harrismith to Aberfeldy, 20 miles 60 chains (33.4 kilometres).[1]
  • 27 April – Transvaal – India Junction to Driehoek (avoiding line), 55 chains (1.1 kilometres).[1]
  • 17 September – Natal – Mhlatuze to Somkele, 55 miles 17 chains (88.9 kilometres).[1]
  • 1 November – Transvaal – India Junction to New Canada, 14 miles 31 chains (23.2 kilometres).[1]
  • 12 November – Natal – Talana to Lucas Meyer, 50 miles 64 chains (81.8 kilometres).[1]
  • 14 December – Cape Eastern – King William's Town to Middledrift, 33 miles (53.1 kilometres).[2]
  • 14 December – Cape Midland – Cookhouse to Adelaide, 42 miles 52 chains (68.6 kilometres).[2]
  • 14 December – Cape Midland – Willowmore to Le Roux, 75 miles 49 chains (121.7 kilometres).[2]

Locomotives

Cape
  • Nine new Cape gauge and one narrow gauge locomotive types enter service on the Cape Government Railways (CGR):
    • The last eight 3rd Class Wynberg Tender suburban locomotives in Cape Town.[3]: 59–61 [4]: 18 
    • Two Karoo Class 4-6-2 Pacific passenger locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 5A on the South African Railways (SAR).[3]: 69–71 [4]: 39 
    • Two 6th Class 2-6-2 Prairie locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 6Y on the SAR.[3]: 52–54, 56 [4]: 45 
    • A second batch of thirty-eight 8th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives, six on the Western, twenty on the Midland and twelve on the Eastern Systems. In 1912 they will be designated Class 8D on the SAR.[3]: 63–64 [4]: 48–49 
    • Four additional 8th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives, built to modified specifications in order to accommodate a larger grate area. In 1912 they will be designated Class 8E on the SAR.[3]: 64 [4]: 49 
    • Four Cape 8th Class 2-8-0 Consolidation type locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 8Y on the SAR.[3]: 64–65 [4]: 50 [5]
    • Two 9th Class 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotives. In 1912 they will be classified Class Experimental 4 on the SAR.[3]: 68–69 [4]: 83 [5]
    • A single experimental 2-8-0 Consolidation type tandem compound steam locomotive. In 1912 it will be classified as Class Experimental 3 on the SAR.[4]: 82 [5][6]: 140 
    • A single experimental 0-6-0+0-6-0 Kitson-Meyer type articulated steam locomotive on the Eastern System.[3]: 69–70, 130–132 [4]: 84 
    • A single Krauss 0-6-0 tank locomotive for use as construction engine on the narrow gauge Avontuur branch.[4]: 111–112, 157 [7]: 232 
  • Two locomotives, later named "Thebus" and "Stormberg", enter service with the Irrigation Department of the Public Works Department of the Cape Colony.[4]: 98 [6]: 130–131 
Transvaal
  • Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Central South African Railways (CSAR):
    • Six Reid Tenwheeler 4-10-2 tank locomotives are converted to a 4-8-2T configuration by removing the fifth pair of coupled wheels to make them better suitable for yard work. In 1912 they will be designated Class H1 on the SAR.[4]: 32, 56 [6]: 136 
    • Thirty Class 8-L2 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 8B on the SAR.[3]: 56, 127 [4]: 48–49 
    • Thirty Class 8-L3 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 8C on the SAR.[3]: 128 [4]: 48–49 

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 184, ref. no. 200954-13
  2. ^ a b c d Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 0869772112.
  5. ^ a b c Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 9, 12, 15, 36 (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)
  6. ^ a b c Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
  7. ^ Dulez, Jean A. (2012). Railways of Southern Africa 150 Years (Commemorating One Hundred and Fifty Years of Railways on the Sub-Continent – Complete Motive Power Classifications and Famous Trains – 1860–2011) (1st ed.). Garden View, Johannesburg, South Africa: Vidrail Productions. ISBN 9 780620 512282.
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