The Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-0T of 1859 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope,and the first locomotive to arrive in South Africa.
The engine Blackie plinthed at Cape Town station, 16 February 2007
William Dabbs
Turning the first sod, in the rain
The engine Blackie as 0-4-0T, running across the Salt River, c. September 1861
Cape Government Railways
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The Cape Government Railways was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways in 1910.
Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-0T
…for use during the construction of the railway. This locomotive, later to become engine no. 9 of the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company and then of the Cape Government Railways, was the first locomotive in South Africa. It has been declared a heritage object and was plinthed in the main concourse of Cape Town station. Possibly…
A photograph of the Port Elizabeth – Uitenhage railway line in 1877
The crest of the now defunct Cape Government Rails as seen in the Cape Town central train station.
Cape Prime Minister John Molteno
Railway construction in the Karoo desert in the late 1870s