The South African Railways Class 1B 4-8-2 of 1904 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Colony of Natal.
SAR Class 1B no. 1445, ex NGR Class B no. 324
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.
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