The first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum (currently African Invertebrates) is published by Natal Museum in
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Unknown date
Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa.
13 December –
Laurens van der Post, author, farmer, war hero, political adviser, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist, is born in
Philippolis. (d. 1996)
Deaths
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Railways
Railway lines opened
Transvaal – Nancefield to Pimville, 2 miles (3.2 kilometres).[2]
22 January – Cape Central –
Riversdale to Voorbaai, 58 miles (93.3 kilometres).[2]
An experimental
9th Class2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive. In 1912 it will be designated Class Experimental 5 on the South African Railways (SAR).[4][5]
An experimental
10th Class4-8-0 Mastodon locomotive for the Cape Eastern System. In 1912 it will be designated Class Experimental 6 on the SAR.[4][5]
A single self-contained
Railmotor for low-volume passenger service on the
Franschhoek branchline.[6]
Natal
The
Natal Government Railways (NGR) modifies six of its 4-8-0Class B locomotives to a 4-8-2 wheel arrangement, the first
4-8-2 Mountain type tender locomotive in the world. In 1912 it will be designated
Class 1B on the South African Railways (SAR).[5]
In April the NGR places two
Class N 4-6-2 narrow gauge tank locomotives in service on the new narrow gauge line that is being built between
Estcourt and
Weenen.[5]
References
^Stuart, J. (1913). History of the Zulu Rebellion 1906. London: Macmillan and Co. pp. 548–581.
^
abcdefghijkStatement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 185, ref. no. 200954-13
^
abcdefReport for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909.
^
abHolland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England:
David & Charles. p. 72.
ISBN978-0-7153-5382-0.
^
abcdPaxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 34–35, 83, 110–111, 157.
ISBN0869772112.
^Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd drawing no. 12640