1927 in South Africa
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Events
- August
- 20 – The restored manor house of Groot Constantia is reopened after a fire devastated it in 1925.
Births
- 13 January – Sydney Brenner, biologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, is born in Germiston, Johannesburg.
- May – Philemon (Duma) Pearce Dumasile Nokwe, the first black advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal and politician.
- 10 June – Mizream Maseko, artist and Zion Christian Church deacon.
- 22 October – Helenard Joe Hendrickse (Allan Hendrickse) is born in Uitenhage, Cape Province.
Railways
Railway lines opened
- 7 January – Cape – Sunland to Kirkwood, 14 miles 54 chains (23.6 kilometres).[1]
- 10 February – Transvaal – Solarvale to Mount Carmel, 2 miles 25 chains (3.7 kilometres).[1]
- 27 April – Cape – Landplaas to Bitterfontein, 31 miles 63 chains (51.2 kilometres).[1]
- 1 July – Transvaal – Makwassie to Vermaas, 59 miles 29 chains (95.5 kilometres).[1]
- 4 July – Natal – Candover to Golela, Transvaal, 12 miles 27 chains (19.9 kilometres).[1]
- 14 September – Cape – Imvani to Qamata, 26 miles 79 chains (43.4 kilometres).[1]
Locomotives
Seven new steam locomotive types, five Cape gauge and two narrow gauge, enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
- Ten Class HF 2-8-2+2-8-2 Double Mikado type Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotives.[2]:98[3]:52–53
- Thirteen Class GCA 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated branchline locomotives.[2]:90[3]:52–54
- Thirty-seven Class GF 4-6-2+2-6-4 Double Pacific type Garratt locomotives.[2]:92[3]:54–56[4]
- Ten Class U 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Union Garratt articulated locomotives.[2]:96–97[3]:56
- In December, the first of two Class 18 2-10-2 Santa Fe type locomotives.[3]:51–52
- Two Class NG G12 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type narrow gauge Garratt articulated locomotives. They are the smallest Garratt locomotives to see service in South Africa.[2]:106–107, 110
- The first three Class NG G13 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt locomotives, on the Langkloof and Alfred County Railway narrow gauge lines.[2]:10–11, 107[5]:124
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 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
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 0869772112.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Holland, D.F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways, Volume 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
- ↑ Hamilton, Gavin N., The Garratt Locomotive - Garratt Locomotives from Other Builders, retrieved 10 November 2012
- ↑ Durrant, A E (1989). Twilight of South African Steam (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, London: David & Charles. ISBN 0715386387.
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