Rail transport in South Africa
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Rail transport in South Africa is an important element of the country's transport infrastructure. All major cities are connected by rail, and South Africa's railway system is the most highly developed in Africa. The South African rail industry is publicly owned.
A Metrorail train pulling out of Kalk Bay station near Cape Town
Rail network in 1950
Cape Government Railways
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The Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways (SAR) in 1910.
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