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1926 in South Africa

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Events

March
  • 13 – The first commercial air route from South Africa is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.
    • October
  • 10 – The South African National War Memorial next to Delville Wood outside Longueval, France is opened.
  • 10 – The Sabie Game Reserve is renamed to Kruger National Park.

    • Births

  • 23 May – Yossel Mashel Slovo, politician, is born in Obeliai, Lithuania. (d.1995)
  • 15 October – Rexon Mathebula, artist, is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.

    • Railway lines opened

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

    • Locomotives

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

    Contents

  • The first twenty-three Class 15CA 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.
  • Four Class FD 2-6-2+2-6-2 Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotives.
  • To address a shortage of suitable shunting locomotives, the first of twenty-one ex Natal Government Railways Class D1 4-8-2 tank locomotives are rebuilt to Class 17 4-8-0 tank-and-tender locomotives.

    • References

    1926 in South Africa Wikipedia
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