Reference Sources for South African Railways

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Reference Sources for South African Railways

Following on from the Nigerian reference sources this document is to list reference sources that deal with South Africa and Swaziland (now Eswatini). You are encouraged to look at the general African page as well.

Firstly, a word of warning, there has been a spate in recent years of people finding books that are out of copyright, OCR’ing them and offering the copies for sale. Admittedly they do warn that the copies may not be perfect. The Trust brought a copy of a French book on African Colonial Railways that is extremely rare but found that no more than 25% of the pages were legible.

Some of the titles below are available in the British Library and can be found by searching their catalogue.

Journal articles listed should be available through JSTOR or appropriate online sources.

In producing these research files use has been made of the following reference source: TRANSPORT RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY, Gordon Pirie, African Centre for Cities University of Cape Town December 2018, however much additional material has been added.

There is a Southern African Historical Society, but it is mainly aimed at professional historians and we cannot find a list of publications.

There is also the South African Military History Society which has published articles on railways and the older back numbers are available online.

South African Railways and Harbours often in conjunction with the local town Tourist Board provided an extensive series of booklets on many towns in the 1920-30’s. We have not listed them all, as this page would grow to an unwieldly size. These can be found be searching on World Cat, likewise searching World Cat gave another extensive series of survey reports for proposed or constructed railway lines, again these have not been listed.

The South African Railway and Harbour Journal has been put online on Jan Haarhoff's South African Railway History site. This site also has good coverage of WW1 for Southern and East Africa and some Western Front where South Africans were involved.

There are the following railway museums/preservation centres known to exist in South Africa.

The James Hall Museum of Transport, Johannesburg, although it does not have a large railway collection the range of exhibits is highly recommended. It is free to enter, but donations are of course welcomed.

The Natal Railway Museum at Hilton.

The Outeniqua Transport Museum is a railway museum located in George, South Africa. The Outeniqua Railway Museum is one of Transnet Heritage Foundation museums. Situated in the former PX-goods shed in George, the museum opened on 24 September 1998. The museum collection consists of a total of 21 steam locomotives and a total of 22 coaches among other vehicles. It does not appear to have it’s own website but contact details are at Outeniqua Transport Museum, George.

Outeniqua Choo Tjoe - the beloved steam train that once ran between Knysna and George, and that’s now owned (and will be operated) by Classic Rail as of 2019.

Sandstone Heritage Trust Sandstone is NOT a railway museum it is a working farm that runs approximately 3 heritage events during the year. It is slowly reopening after the pandemic and has moved 3’ 6” equipment here from Bloemfontein and Krugersdorp.

Books and Journal Articles on South African Railways

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Abdulaziz; Gupta, NK	Application of FDTD method in induced voltage calculations in AC electrified railways	2005	Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. VOL 96; NUMB 1, ; 2005, 67-72 -- SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL (pages 67-72) – 2005
ADAM, James A	Wheels within Wheels, and trade unionism on the S.A.R. & H. [i.e. the South African Railways and Harbours Administration] ... Introductions by: Hon. Oswald Pirow ... Hon. F. C. Sturrock ... Brig. Chas. M. Hoffe. [With a portrait.]	1952	South African Railways and Harbours	Johannesburg
Altmann, Hendrik	From Boy to Boardroom. An Autobiography	1963	High Commission Printing and Publishing Company Limited	Mbabane
Anon	4-8-2 Class “15F” Locomotives for the South African Railways	1946	Reprinted from “The Railway Gazette,”	Westminster
Anon	A brief history of railways	2001	Civil engineering : magazine of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers = Siviele ingenieurswese. VOL 9; PART 10, ; 2001, 17 -- SAICE – 2001
Anon	Afschriften van eenige brieven en telegrammen gewisseld tusschen N.Z.A.S.M. en C.G.R. in de eerste maanden van 1985 (vervolg of Groenboek No.1, 1895)	1967	Staatsbiblioteek	Pretoria
Anon	Agreement between His Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa and the Portuguese Government revising the convention of September 11, 1928, relating to native labour from Mozambique, railway matters and commercial intercourse. Lourenço Marques, November 17, 1934 : [Ratifications exchanged at Pretoria, July 12, 1935].	1936	H.M.S.O.	London
Anon	Daylight Colour Signalling on the South African Railways and the Resignalling of Capetown Suburban Lines	1930	Production and Reproduction	Cape Town
Anon	Designing railways formations for the future	2005	Civil engineering : magazine of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers = Siviele ingenieurswese. VOL 13; NUMB 5, ; 2005, 16-19 -- SAICE (pages 16-19) – 2005
Anon	Detailed History of the Railways in the South African War, 1899-1902	1904	Royal Engineers	Chatham
Anon	Fleet histories of South African railways and its successors	2015	The PSV Circle	Barking
Anon	Food on the move : dining on the legendary railway journeys of the world / edited by Sharon Hudgins	2018	Reaktion Books	London
Anon	Industrial Boksburg. (Industriële Boksburg.)	1950	Brochure produced jointly by the Municipality of Boksburg and the South African Railways Publicity & Travel Dept.) Eng. & Afrikaans.	Johannesburg
Anon	Johannesburg Railway Station Bombing, 24 July 1964	1964
Anon	King William's Town ... Official illustrated handbook	1923	Issued under the joint auspices of the King William's Town Municipality and the South African Railways and Harbours	King William's Town
Anon	Meet the South African railways	1968?		Bloemfontein,
Anon	Minutes of Conference of Representatives of South African Government Railways, Agricultural Departments and other interests to settle and arrange details connected with the export of Maize from South Africa ... 7th and 8th January, 1908	1908		Pretoria
Anon	Notes on railway construction	1912/13	Journal of the Royal African Society, 12 (47), 290-295
Anon	Performance-based contracts - the basis for a win-win situation for the Railways and the contractor	2002	Civil engineering : magazine of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers = Siviele ingenieurswese. VOL 10; PART 7, ; 2002, 13-14 -- SAICE (pages 13-14) – 2002
Anon	Photographs of South Africa : comprising representative views of its cities, streets, churches, parliament houses, public buildings, statues, memorials, houses, huts, lighthouses, harbours; its diamond mines, gold mines, railways, ships, farms, plantations; its scenery, rivers, mountains, Karoo, tropical vegetation, waterfalls, social life, scenes on the "veld", natives ...	1894	South African Photo-Pub. Co.,	Cape Town
Anon	Plan of Railway Stations and Sidings in South Africa	1909	Dennis Edwards & Co,	Johannesburg & Bloemfontein
Anon	Railway and Ports Organization in the Republic of South Africa and Turkey: The Integrator's Paradise?	2009
Anon	Railway track material and maintenance in South Africa - a brief history up to 1988	2009	Civil engineering : magazine of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers = Siviele ingenieurswese. VOL 17; NUMB 4, ; 2009, 43-53 -- SAICE Part 4; (pages 43-53)
Anon	Reports of trials of Welsh and South African coals on the eastern system of the Cape Government railways, 1897-98	1898	Cape of Good Hope		Published by Pranava Books, 2020
Anon	Road and rail transport links in southern Africa: a selected and annotated survey	1987	Southern African Update, 2 (1)
Anon	Sidelights on South Africa and the Cape to Cairo Route	1926	Technical Press Ltd.	Johannesburg
Anon	Supporting inclusive growth and sustainable development in Africa. Volume II, Transforming infrastructure development / edited by Elena G. Popkova, Bruno S. Sergi, Lubinda Haabazoka, Julia V. Ragulina	2020	Palgrave Macmillan	Basingstoke
Anon	Taking pedestrian microscopic modelling to the next level for railway station design in South Africa	2009	Civil engineering : magazine of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers = Siviele ingenieurswese. VOL 17; NUMB 10, ; 2009, 32-35 -- SAICE (pages 32-35)
Anon	The 1995 ABC of South African Locomotives	1995	NBL Preservation Group
Anon	The Railways Strike Back	2000	South African mechanical engineer. VOL 50; PART 10, ; 2000, 21-22 -- MATTEC PUBLISHING (pages 21-22) – 2000
Anon	The South African A.B.C. Alphabetical, postcard, steamship, and railway guide, etc. No. 3-24. May 1910-March 1918	1910-12		Cape Town ; Johannesburg
Anon	The South African Railways : Historical Survey	n.d.	Dorbyl	Johannesburg
Arnold, Guy, and Weiss, Ruth	Strategic Highways of Africa	1977	Julian Friedmann	London
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	Railways	2008	In New Encyclopaedia of Africa, edited by John Middleton. Gale.	Farmington Mills
Baffi, Solene	Railroads to civilization: the railroad in South Africa's territorial policies	2014	L´Espace Geographique, 43 (4), 1-18
Bagshawe, Peter	Locomotives of the Namaqualand Railway and Copper Mines	2012	Frank Stenvals	Malmo
Ballantyne, Hugh	South African Two-foot Gauge: Featuring the Garratts (Branch Lines)	2009	Middleton Press
Baltzer, Franz	Die Kolonialbahnen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Afrikas [The Colonial Railways with particular reference to Africa]	1916	Berlin, Leipzig, Göschen: (Reprint: Leipzig 2007: Holzminden Reprint-Verl.). ISBN 9783826202339	Berlin	(in German)
Behrens, Roger	Child and learner travel in Cape Town: problems and prospects	2004	Urban Forum, 15 (3), 254-278
Bester, M	Practices in the railway industry for assessments, intervention and management of psychosocial issues in South Africa	2018	Occupational and environmental medicine. Volume 75 (2018) Supplement 2; pp A306-A306 -- BMJ Pub. Group
Board of Trade and Industries	Facilities for the Establishment of Factories in the Union of South Africa. Issued by the Board of Trade and Industries, Pretoria, in collaboration with the Publicity Dept., South African Railways & Harbours Administration. [With maps.]	1928	Board of Trade and Industries	Pretoria
Bouch, RJ	The railways and the War effort, 1914-1915	1974	Militaria, 4 (4), 1-14
Bouch, RJ	The railways and the War effort, 1939-1945	1975	Militaria, 66- 75
Bozzoli, GR	Forging Ahead: South Africa’s Pioneering Engineers	1997	Witwatersrand University Press	Johannesburg
Browing, A	Probable influence of railway construction in Natal upon the advancement of civilisation amongst the natives of that colony and the adjacent territory	1875	Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 23, 475-484
Bruyns Haylett, AF	Railway location as influenced by compensation for curvature		Civil Engineering = Siviele Ingenieurswese, v1931 n1 (19310101): 50-73
BUCKLAND, Merilyn Victoria, comp.	South African railways before 1910. A bibliography	1964	University of Cape Town School of Librarianship	Cape Town
Burman, Jopse	Early Railways at the Cape	1984	Human & Rousseau
Burton, Henry	Railways and communications in South Africa	1918	Journal of the Royal African Society, 18 (69), 1-8
Busschau, WJ	Some aspects of railway development in Natal.	1933	South African Journal of Economics, 1, 405-420
Campbell, Edward D	The Birth and Development of the Natal Railways	1949	Shuter and Shooter	Pietermaritzburg
Cape of Good Hope, House of Assembly	Report of the Select Committee on Railway Transfer; printed for the House of Assembly by order of Mr. Speaker. July, 1863	1863	Saul Solomon and Co	Cape Town
Cape of Good Hope, Parliament	Further Railway Convention between the Orange Free State and the Cape Colony; Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Excellency the Governor. 1896	1896	W. A. Richards & Sons	Cape Town
Carling, D Rock	4-8-0 Tender Locomotives	1971	David and Charles	Newton Abbot	The quintessential African steam engine
Chapman, MB	Notes on land transport in South Africa (excluding government railways) for the use of visitors to the James Hall Museum of Transport, Pioneers' Park, La Rochelle, Johannesburg	1971	James Hall Museum of Transport	Johannesburg	Reprinted in 1976
Chilvers, Hedley A	The Seven Wonders of Southern Africa	1929	Administration of the South African Railways and Harbours	Johannesburg,
Christ, Nannette, and Ferrantino, Michael J	Land transport for export: the effects of cost, time, and uncertainty in Sub-Saharan Africa	2011	World Development, 39 (10), 1749-1759
Christy, C	The Cape-to-Cairo railway	1924	Scottish Geographical Magazine, 40, 331-334
Cilliers, SS; Bredenkamp, GJ	Vegetation analysis of railway reserves in the Potchefstroom municipal area, North West Province, South Africa	1998	South African journal of botany. VOL 64; NUMBER 5, ; 1998, 271-280 -- BUREAU FOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (pages 271-280) – 1998
Coates, Peter Ralph	Track and Trackless: Omnibuses and Trams in the Western Cape	1976	Struik,	Cape Town
Coetzee, DJ	Spoorwegontwikkeling in Die Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek	1940	Nasionale Pers	Beperk
Committee appointed to enquire into Railway Rating Policy in South Africa	Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into Railway Rating Policy in South Africa, etc.	1950		Pretoria
Conacher, J	Report upon the distribution of oversea traffic between the South African Railways and upon certain other matters relating thereto	1908	Government Printing and Stationery Office	Pretoria
Conradie, AM ed.	The law of carriage of goods by railway in South Africa	1964	Butterworths	Durban
Conyngham, RV	The K&S Class Locos of the Natal Govt Rly	1996	Railway History Group	Cape Town
COTTS, William Dingwall Mitchell Sir, Bart.	The Shippers' Guide to South and East Africa. With coloured railway map ... Compiled and edited by W. D. M. Cotts	1897	Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co	London
Courtenay, James Watts	South Africa. The Railways of Cape Colony. With illustrations of the principal towns. Large map showing all stations. Particulars of imports, &c.	1907	Jas. W Courtenay	London
Cox, FAS	Railway Development between Durban and Pietermaritzburg	1979	MA, University of South Africa	Pretoria
Darsley, Roger & Hutson, Terry	The Bluff Railway: Story of S. Africa’s Wooden Rly,	2010	On Track” Nov 2010
Darwin, Major	Railways in Africa	1896	Geographical Journal 8: p488-501	London
DAVENPORT, DE	A Railway Sketch of South Africa.	1882	E. & F. N. Spon	London ; New York
Day, John Robert	Railways of Southern Africa	1963	Arthur Baker	London
de Jongh, RC; van der Waal, G-M.; and Heydenrych, DH	NZASM 100: The Buildings, Steam Engines and Structures of the Netherlands South African Railway Company, 1887-1899	1988	Chris van Rensburg	Pretoria
DE MOUNTENEY, ARO	The South African Customs Duties, Shipping Freights, from various countries, to Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Lourenço Marques and Beira, and the railage from these ports to all towns on the railway line in South Africa and Rhodesia. Together with the customs tariffs and other useful information. Editor: A. R. O. de Mounteney.	1920	Central News Agency	Cape Town ; Johannesburg
de Renty, Ernest Amédée	Les Chemins de Fer Coloniaux en Afrique	1903	De Rudeval	Paris	Pt 1 is German, Italian and Portuguese Colonies, Pt 2 the British Colonies and Pt 3 the French Colonies
Demangeon, A	The Cape to Cairo dream	1929	The Living Age, 365-368
Department of Mines	Industrial Development in South Africa	1924	Compiled by the Department of Mines and Industries in collaboration with the South African Railways and Harbours Administration. [With plates.]	Pretoria
Department of Mines	Industrial Development in South Africa	1927	Compiled by the Department of Mines and Industries in collaboration with the South African Railways and Harbours Administration. [With a map.]	Pretoria
Department of Transport. Cape Peninsula and Districts Urban Transport Committee. Cape Town, 1948.	Report of Cape Peninsula and Districts Urban Transport Committee	1948	Department of Transport and South African Railways	Cape Town
Donaldson, Ronnie	Mass rapid rail development in South Africa's metropolitan core: towards a new urban form?	2006	Land Use Policy, 23, 344- 352
Donaldson, Ronnie, and van der Westhuizen, Janis	Built in a field of dreams? Spatial engineering and political symbolism of South Africa’s rapid rail link development, Gautrain	2011	In Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects, edited by D. Stanley Brunn, pp. 683-695. Springer	Dordrecht: Netherlands
Due, John F	Some Observations on Rail and Road Transport in Commonwealth Tropical Africa	1977	In Transportation Research Paper No. 14. University of Illinois	Urbana-Champaign
Durrant, AE	Garratt locomotives of the world	1981	David and Charles	Newton Abbot
Durrant, AE	The Garratt locomotive	1969	David and Charles	Newton Abbot
Durrant, AE	Twilight of South African Steam	1989	David and Charles	Newton Abbott
Durrant, AE; Jorgensen, AA; Lewis, CP	Steam in Africa	1981	Hamlyn	London
Earl of Selborne	A Review of the Present Mutual Relations of the British South African Colonies [by the Earl of Selborne], to which is appended a Memorandum on South African Railway Unification and its effect on Railway Rates. [With plates.]	1907		Johannesburg
Edwards, Bruce A	Die Spoorbond's struggle for supremacy	1987	MA, History Department, University of the Witwatersrand	Johannesburg
Eklund, SO	Economic implications of innovations in railway vehicle design		South African Journal of Science, v80 n9 (19840901): 407
Ellsworth, R	'The simplicity of the native mind': black passengers on the South African Railways in the early twentieth century	1986	In Resistance and Ideology in Settler Societies, edited by Tom Lodge, pp. 74-95. Ravan Press	Johannesburg
Espitalier. TJ	4' 8½" Gauge Railways in South Africa.	1993	Railway History Group	Cape Town
Fombad, Madeleine C	Governance in public–private partnerships in South Africa: some lessons from the Gautrain	2015	Journal of Southern African Studies, 41 (6), 1199-1217.
Foster, Jeremy	Capturing and losing the ‘lie of the land’: railway photography and colonial nationalism in early twentieth-century South Africa.	2003	In Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination, edited by Joan M. Schwartz and James R Ryan, pp. 141-161. I B Taurus	London
Foster, Jeremy	'Land of Contrasts' or 'Home we have always known'?: the SAR&H and the imaginary geography of White South African nationhood, 1910-1930	2003	Journal of Southern African Studies, 29 (3), 657- 680
Foster, Jeremy	Northward, upward: stories of train travel, and the journey towards white South African nationhood, 1895-1950	2005	Journal of Historical Geography, 31 (2), 296-315.
Fourie, Johan, and Herranz-Loncán, Alfonso	Growth (and Segregation) by Rail: How the Railways Shaped Colonial South Africa	2015	Economic Research Southern Africa, Working Paper 539
Fox, H Wilson	The Cape-to-Cairo railway and train ferries: development of the Great Lakes of Africa by train ferries	1920	Geographical Journal, 55 (2), 73-101
FoxLee, Richard William	The railway gauge problem of tropical Africa	1948	In Conference on Civil Engineering Problems in The Colonies, pp. 61-73 Institute of Civil Engineers.
Frankel, S Herbert	Road and rail in Africa	1930	In Coming of Age: Studies in South African Citizenship and Politics, edited by Edgar H Brookes and RF Currey. Maskew Miller	Cape Town
Frankel, S Herbert	Road and rail transport in South Africa	1929	South African Journal of Science, 26 (12), 958-971
Frankel, S. Herbert	South African Railway Policy in Relation to the Development of the Primary Industries	1938	DSc, University of London
FRANKEL, Sally Herbert	The Railway Policy of South Africa. An analysis of the effects of railway rates, finance and management on the economic development of the Union, etc.	1928	: Hortors	Johannesburg
Gibb, Richard A	Imposing dependence: South Africa's manipulation of regional railways	1991	Transport Reviews, 11 (1), 19-39
Gibbs, Pat	Different tracks: ambiguities in the development nexus of coal and rail in the Eastern Cape, 1880–1910	2015	South African Historical Journal, 67 (3), 293-315.
Girdlestone, Phil	Camels and Cadillacs : A History of the South African Railways 25 Class Condensers and 25NC 4-8-4s		Frank Stenvals	Malmo
Girouard, EPC	The railways of Africa.	1906	Scribner's Magazine, 39, 553- 568
GIROUARD, Edouard Percy Cranwill, Sir, K.C.M.G.	History of the Railways during the War in South Africa, 1899-1902	1903	Stationery Office	London
Gräbe, P.J. and A F Powell	Exploring the relationship between vertical and lateral forces, speed and superelevation in railway curves		Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering v59 n3 (20170901): 25-35
Gräbe, PJ and N J Van der Westhuizen	The integration of railway asset management information to ensure maintenance effectiveness : technical paper		Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering = Joernaal van die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut van Siviele Ingenieurswese, v55 n3 (20131001): 18-29
Gray, A	Africa's pressing transport problem: plans to relieve rail and port capacity	1953	African World, 15-19
Griffiths, Ieuan L	'Web of Steel': the development of the railways	1986	Geographical Magazine, 58, 512-517
Gwaindepi, Abel	Public Sector Growth in the British Cape Colony: Evidence From New Data on Expenditure and Foreign Debt, 1830‐1910	2020	The South African journal of economics: Suid-afrikaanse tydskrif vir ekonomie. Volume 88:Number 3 (2020, September); pp 341-367 --
Hay, A	Developments in mobile communications for railways	1999	Elektron journal of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. VOL 16; NUMBER 7, ; 1999, 31-34 -- ELEKTRON MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIP Part: Part 7; (pages 31-34) – 1999
Hay, Richard	The Avontuur Railway: 1 (South African Two Foot Gauge Railways)	2021	Mainline & Maritime	Chippenham
Hendrich, Gustav	The Sishen-Saldanha Railway Project in South Africa: Arguments for and Against Construction, 1970 - 1976		The Southern Journal for Contemporary History, v46 n1 (20210723): 29-61
Herranz-Loncán, Alfonso, and Fourie, Johan	'For the public benefit': railways in the British Cape Colony	2017	European Review of Economic History, 21 (4), 1-28
Heunis, MC	Rail Mounted Guns of The Anglo-Boer War	2006	O.V.S.A.C. Study No 17, Jul-Sep 2006
Heydenrych, DH	Indian railway labour in Natal: the biggest Indian work force in the colony	1986	Historia, 31, 11-20
Heydenrych, DH	Railway development in Natal to 1895	1985	In Enterprise and Exploitation in a Victorian Colony, edited by B. Guest and J. Sellers, pp. 47-70. Shuter and Shooter	Pietermaritzburg
Hogbin, Vanessa	Railways, disease and health in South Africa	1985	Social Science and Medicine, 20 (9), 933-938
Holland, Donald Frank Edwin	Holland's Corrections to the Steam Locomotives of South African Railways		The Railway History Group	Cape Town
Holland, Donald Frank Edwin	Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways	1971	David and Charles	Newton Abbot	2 Volumes
Horwitz, R	The restriction of competition between road motor transport and the railways in the Union of South Africa	1937	South African Journal of Economics, 5, 145-163
Hunter, D	The development and working of railways in the colony of Natal		South African Journal of Science, v4 n1 (19050101): 52-58
Huth, EFA	The Story of the South African Railways	1964	The Friend Newspapers	Bloemfontein
Hyde, PA	Report on the improvement in rolling stock of the Central South African Railways	1904
Hyslop, Jonathan	Durban as a portal of globalization: mines, railways, docks and steamships in the Empire of Otto Siedle’s Natal Direct Line, c. 1879–1929	2015	Comparativ, 25 (4)
Johnston, Alex	Fresh fields for African railways	1904	Journal of the Royal African Society, 3 (11), 271-276
Johnston, HH	Railway projects in Africa and the Near East	1912	The Nineteenth Century and After, 558-569
Johnston, KT	Railway Jack: the True Story of an Amazing Baboon	2020	Capstone Editions of Coughlan Companies, United States
Jordaan, DG	Spoorwegpolitiek in die Suid-Afrikaanse Politiek [Railway Politics in the South African Republic]	1935	MA, University of South Africa,	Pretoria
Jorgensen, AA	The 150th anniversary of the first railways and the 10th anniversary of the Railroad Association of South Africa / compiled by Allen A. Jorgensen.	c2010	Chris van Rensburg Publications	Johannesburg
Katzenellenbogen, Simon E	South Africa and southern Mozambique : labour, railways and trade in the making of a relationship	1982	Manchester University Press	Manchester
Kiernan, JP	'Public transport and private risk: Zionism and the black commuter in South Africa	1977	Journal of Anthropological Research, 33:2 (1977), 214-26
KILGOUR, George	Railway Extension in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa	1881	S. Solomon & Co	Cape Town
Kiloh, Margaret, and Sibeko, Archie	A Fighting Union: an Oral History of the South African Railways and Harbours Workers Union, 1936-1998	2000	Ravan	Ransburg
Laight, JC	Rail expenditure and the volume of traffic	1950	South African Journal of Economics, 18 (3), 296-306
Laight, JC	Railway expansion during the post war period	1957	South African Journal of Economics, 25 (2), 115-123
Laight, JC	Railway finances during the post war period	1957	South African Journal of Economics, 25 (3), 203-212
Le Roux, B	The Restructuring of Spoornet: Previously Known as South African Railways	1993	Rail international. English edition. VOL 24; NUMBER 3, ; 1993, 31 -- ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DU CONGRES DES Part: Part 3; -- 1993
Leap, William L	Strangers on a train: sexuality, citizenship and the politics of public transportation in apartheid Cape Town	2002	In Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism, edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malave and Martin F. Manalansan, pp. 219-235. New York University Press	New York
Leendertz, Martin	Memories of the Cape Government Railway at Cape Town.	1993	Railway History Group	Cape Town
Lerer, LB; Matzopoulos, RG	Fatal Railway Injuries in Cape Town, South Africa	1997	The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology. VOL 18; NUMBER 2, ; 1997, 144-147 -- AMERICAN SCIENCES PRESS Part: Part 2; (pages 144-147) – 1997
Lerer, Leonard B; Matzopoulos, Richard	Meeting the challenge of railway injury in a South African city	1996	THE LANCET LTD Part: Part 9028; (pages 664-666)
Lewin, E	Railways in Africa	1917	United Empire, 8, 23-30; 94-99; 172-178
Lewis, CP & Jorgensen, AA	The Great Steam Trek	1978	Hamlyn
Lotz, WPN	A diversity of gauges: obstacle to intra-African rail transport	1971	South African Journal of African Affairs, 4, 81-90
Lowe, CM	On the road to recovery: rehabilitating the rails	1989	Africa Report, 3 (May/June), 38-41
Maasdorp, Gavin	A strategy for rail and road transportation in southern Africa	1991	Africa Insight, 21, 7-13
Maasdorp, Gavin	Making Southern African railways more competitive	1995	Urban Forum, 6 (2), 79-90
Mann, R et al.	The Development and Application of Glassfibre Structures for Railway Electrification in South Africa	1995	NATIONAL CONFERENCE PUBLICATION- INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA NCP.; Railway engineering; Melbourne; Australia, 1995; Oct, 1995, 241-246 -- Institution of Engineers, Australia; 1995 Part: Part 8; (pages 241-246) – 1995
Matzopoulos, R, and Lerer, Leonard B	Hours to hell and back: a social epidemiology of railway injury in a South African city, 1890-1995	1998	Social Science and Medicine, 47, 75-83
McKenzie, John	SOUTH AFRICAN STEAM JOURNEY IN COLOUR	1982	published by the author	Crawley, West Sussex
Metropolitan Vickers	Electrification of the Reef lines South African Railways	1954	Metropolitan Vickers	Manchester
Middleton, JN	S.A.R Locomotive Allocations 1987	1987	RSSA Preservation Group	Johannesburg
Middleton, JN	S.A.R Locomotive Allocations 1989	1989	Railway Preservation Group,	Johannesburg
Moir, SM	Twenty-four inches apart : the two-foot gauge railways of the Cape of Good Hope	1981	Janus	Kempton Park
Moore, Dennis	The shimmer of steel: An all-colour celebration of South African steam locomotives in the 1990s	1998	Chris van Rensburg Publications
Moore, Dennis	The Sunset of Steam	1990	Chris van Rensburg Publications
Motlhatlhedi, Itumeleng G	Investigation of Project Delays in Construction Projects in the South African Rail Industry	2020	Generis Publishing, United States
Mulholland, RB	White Labour and Politics: Railway Workers on the Witwatersrand, 1910-1924	1988	MA, University of the Witwatersrand	Johannesburg
Nasson, William R	Moving Lord Kitchener: black military transport and supply work in the South African War, 1899-1902, with particular reference to the Cape Colony	1984	Journal of Southern African Studies, 11 (1), 25-51
Nock, OS	Railways of Southern Africa,	1971	Black	London
Norval, AJ	The Administration of the South African Railways on Business Principles - A critical analysis		JH de Bussy,	Pretoria
Opperman, FJ	The Development of Staff Representation of the non European Employees of the South African Railways and Harbours Administration	1963	MA, Potchefstroom University	Potchefstroom
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Pattinson, RG	The Cape Seventh Class Locomotive.	1997	Railway History Group	Cape Town
Pauling and Co. Ltd	The Works of Pauling and Co. Ltd	1930	London
Pauling, George	Chronicles of a Contractor	1926	Constable.	London	Reprinted by Books of Rhodesia in 1970’s
Paxton, Leith and Bourne, David	Locomotives of the South African railways : a concise guide	1985	Struik	Cape Town
Pearsall, CW	The Government Service Mutual Aid Association (South Africa) and the Mutual Association of Railways and Harbours (South Africa)	1937	South African Journal of Economics, 5, 113-120
Penn, P, Lt-Col and Street, Lucie	Tomorrow’s Continent	1948	Sidgewick & Jackson	London
Pike, Wolfgang	Steam depot. Men and locomotives. Image documents from Germany, Austria, South Africa and Turkey	1985	Motorbuch Verl.	Stuttgart
Pirie, Gordon H	Railway operated road transport and the South African space economy	1985	South African Geographer, 13, 39-50
Pirie, Gordon H	Railway plantations and railway sleepers in South Africa, 1910-1937	1982	South African Forestry Journal, 122, 59-62
Pirie, Gordon H	Rolling segregation into apartheid: South African Railways, 1948-53	1992	Journal of Contemporary History, 27, 671-693
Pirie, Gordon H	The Cape Colony's 'Railway Protector of Natives', 1904	1986	Journal of Transport History, 7 (2), 80-92
Pirie, Gordon H	'A most difficult and delicate question': racial segregation on the Central South African Railways, 1902-1910	1989	Journal of Transport History, 10 (2), 113-127
Pirie, Gordon H	African township railways and the South African state, 1902-1963	1987	Journal of Historical Geography, 13, 283-295
Pirie, Gordon H	Aspects of the Political Economy of Railways in Southern Africa	1982	In Occasional Paper No. 24, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. University of the Witwatersrand	Johannesburg
Pirie, Gordon H	Brutish bombelas: trains for migrant gold miners in South Africa, c. 1900-1925	1997	Journal of Transport History, 18 (1), 31-44
Pirie, Gordon H	Commuter Mode Choice Among Sowetans	1978	MA, Geography, University of the Witwatersrand	Johannesburg
Pirie, Gordon H	Dismantling railway apartheid in South Africa, 1975-1988	1989/90	Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 8/9, 181-199
Pirie, Gordon H	Elite exoticism: sea-rail cruise tourism to South Africa, 1926-1939	2011	African Historical Review, 43, 73-99
Pirie, Gordon H	Racial segregation of passengers on the Cape and Natal colonial railways	1989	Historia, 34, 49-57
Pirie, Gordon H	Racial segregation on South African trains,1910-1927: entrenchment and resistance	1988	South African Historical Journal, 20, 75-93
Pirie, Gordon H	Railway ganging in southern Africa, c. 1900-37	1993	Journal of Transport History, 14 (1), 64-76
Pirie, Gordon H	Railways and labour migration to the Rand mines: constraints and significance	1993	Journal of Southern African Studies, 19, 713- 730
Pirie, Gordon H	Slaughter by steam: railway subjugation of ox wagon transport in the eastern Cape and Transkei, 1886-1910	1993	International Journal of African Historical Studies, 26 (2), 319-343
Pirie, Gordon H	Sleepers beside tracks: housing in South Africa's state railway corporation	1982	South African Geographical Journal, 64, 144-154
Pirie, Gordon H	The decivilising rails: railways and underdevelopment in Southern Africa	1982	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 73 (4), 221-228
Pirie, Gordon H	Transport, food insecurity and food aid in sub-Saharan Africa	1993	Journal of Transport Geography, 1 (1), 12-19
Pirie, Gordon H	White railway labour in South Africa, 1873-1924	1992	In White but Poor, edited by Robert Morrell, pp. 101-114. University of South Africa Press	Pretoria
Pivnic, H. L.	Railway Dining Cars in South Africa	1985	South African Transport Services Museum	Johannesburg
Pivnic, Les	Of Railways and People - a series of essays		South African Transport Services Museum	Johannesburg
Police Commission of Inquiry	Interim and Final Reports of the Commission of Inquiry appointed ... to inquire into certain matters concerning the South African Police and the South African Railways and Harbours Police	1937	Police Commission of Inquiry	Pretoria
Pretoria Publicity Association	Pretoria	1955	(Brochure issued jointly by the Pretoria Publicity Association and the Publicity and Travel Department, South African Railways.) [With illustrations.]	Johannesburg
Purkis, AJ	The Politics, Capital and Labour of Railway Building in the Cape Colony, 1870-1885	1978	DPhil, Oxford University
Rattigan, William Henry, Sir, 1842-1904	The Netherlands South African Railway Question, from the point of view of international law	1901	Wildy & Sons	London
Ravndal, GB	The Cape to Cairo railway	1902	Liberia Bulletin, 21, 7-9
Reed, Brian	Loco Profile 36 : South African 4-8-2s	1973	Profile Publications	Windsor Berks
Reichardt, M, and Duncan, D	Rail transport and the political economy of southern Africa, 1965-1980	1990	Africa Insight, 20 (2), 100-110
Rhind, David MA	Chronicle of the Cape Central Railway	1995	Railway History Group	Cape Town
Richards, JC, and Laight, JC	The SAR and the Newton report	1950	South African Journal of Economics, 18 (4), 385-417
Richardson, Ralph	British trans-Africa railways	1910	Scottish Geographical Magazine, 26, 633-638
Richardson, Ralph	Railways in Africa.	1906	Journal of the Royal African Society?, 6, 291-296
Richardson, Ralph	The railways of Africa	1906	Scottish Geographical Magazine, 22 (12), 621-636
Robertson, Joyce Kathleen	The History of the Narrow Gauge Railways in South Africa: a Bibliography	1968	University of South Africa	Pretoria
Roden, John M	Northward from Cape Town: the Anglican Church Railway Mission in Southern Africa, 1885-1908	1999	Appleton Roebuck: SACRAM Publishing
Roden, John M	The Anglican Church Railway Mission in Southern Africa 1885-1980	1996	DPhil, University of York
Rodgers D C	South African Steam Today	1980	Ian Allan
Rogers, David C	South African Steam Today	1980	Ian Allen	Shepperton
Schoeman, BJ	Railway expansion in South Africa	1958	Optima, 8, 204-210
Schwarz, EHL	Railway development in Africa	1921	South African Geographical Journal, 4, 21-29
Serton, P	De Zuid Afrikaansche Spoorwegen	1927	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 18 (5), 161-170
Shepstone, HJ	Cape to Cairo railroad	1912	Westminster, 21, 83-91
Siviter R	Focus On South African steam	1981	David and Charles	Newton Abbott
Smith, AW, and Bourne, DE	Spirit of Steam, Locomotives of South Africa	1983	Temple Press	Rushden, Northants
Sölch, Werner	Kap-Kairo	1985	Alba	Dusseldorf
South Africa. Railways and Harbours Board.	Report of the railways and harbours board relative to the construction of a line of railway between Fochville and Houtkop	1963	South Africa. Railways and Harbours Board.	Pretoria
South African Railway	South African Railways: list of terms for the menu	1957	Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns	Pretoria
South African Railways	1860 - 1960 Eeufees van die Suid-Afrikaanse Spoorwee/ Centenary of the South African Railways	1959	Publicity and Travel Department, South African Railways
South African Railways	Instructions to Examiners and Repairers (Carriage and Wagon) and Other Servants Employed on the Examination, Maintenance and Supervision of Rolling Stock	1955	South African Railways
South African Railways	List of Technical and other Terms. (Lys van tegniese en ander terme.) Eng. & Afrikaans.	1947	South African Railways	Pretoria
South African Railways	Orange Express	1976	South African Railways
South African Railways	Railways and Harbours. (The South African Railways, Airways & Harbour.) [A description with illustrations.]	1924	South African Railways	Johannesburg,
South African Railways	South African Railways overland route , Durban to Cape Town	1924	Government Printers
South African Railways	Sweiswoordeboek/ Welding Dictionary :Eng-Afr. Afr.-Eng.	1970	South African Railways
South African Railways	The Blue Train - Route Guide	1980	South African Railways	Johannesburg
South African Railways	The Blue Train. Floor Plan and Guide.	1980	South African Railways	Johannesburg
South African Railways	The New Graving Dock and the Port and Harbour of Cape Town, etc.	1945	South African Railways	Cape Town
South African Railways	The South African Railways History, Scope and Organisation	1947	South African Railways	Johannesburg
South African Railways	The South African Railways. History, scope and organisation	1947	South African Railways - Public Relations Department.	Johannesburg
South African Railways & Harbours Administration	VAN RIEBEECK TERCENTENARY, 1652-1952, LINES OF COMMUNICATION: The Story of 300 years of transport in South Africa, together with an Illustrative Map.	1952	South African Railways & Harbours Administration	Cape Town
South African Railways and Harbours	Die Suid-Afrikaanse spoorweë. Geskiedenis, omvang en organisasie	1948	South African Railways and Harbours	Johannesburg
South African Railways and Harbours	Their Majesties the King and Queen and Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and the Princess Margaret in the Union of South Africa. February-April, 1947	1947	South African Railways and Harbours	Pretoria
South African Railways Engineering Society	Proceedings 1949-1950 and The South African Railways, History, Scope and Organisation	1960	South African Railways Engineering Society
South African Railways	First [etc.] Report of Commission of Inquiry into Grievances of Railway Servants.	1950	South African Railways	Pretoria
South African Railways	Illustrated Guide to Hotels and Boarding-Houses served by the South African Railways and connections, 1923	1923	South African Railways	Cape Town
South African Railways	Instructions regarding the Packing, Handling and Transport of Explosives	1953	The Government Printer	Pretoria
South African Railways	Meet the South African Railways	1948	South African Railways	Johannesburg,
South African Railways	South African Railways and Harbours. The Royal Train. 17 February-24 April 1947. [With illustrations.]	1947	South African Railways. Chloride Electrical Storage Co	London ; Johannesburg
South African Railways	The Sunshine Route. 5,000 miles through Southern Africa over the South African Railways	1935	South African Railways. Reprinted ... from the “African” and “Rhodesian” Mining Manuals	London ; Johannesburg
South African Railways	We Fought the Miles ... The history of the South African Railways at war, 1939-1945. [With plates.]	1947	South African Railways	Johannesburg
South African Railways - Committee of Inquiry in connection with the Shipping Service operated by the Railway Administration	Report of Committee of Inquiry in connection with the Shipping Service operated by the Railway Administration, 1952. (Verslag van Komitee van Ondersoek insake die Skeepvaartdiens deur die Spoorwegadministrasie geëksploiteer)	1952	South African Railways	Pretoria
South African Railways - Railway Language Bureau.	List of Locomotive Terms, etc. (Lys lokomotiefterme.) Eng. & Afrikaans	1953	South African Railways - Railway Language Bureau	Pretoria
South African Railways - Railway Language Bureau	South African Railways. List of Carriage and Wagon Terms (Suid-Afrikaanse Spoorweë, Lys passasiers-wa-en-trokterme)	1957	Compiled in the Railway Language Bureau in collaboration with the Vaktaalburo of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Eng. & Afrikaans	Pretoria
South African Railways - Railway Language Bureau	South African Railways. Motor Terms. (Suid-Afrikaanse Spoorweë. Motorterme.)	1957?	Compiled in the Railway Language Bureau in Collaboration with the Vaktaalburo of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Eng. & Afrikaans	Johannesburg
South African Railways Tourist Agency	Maak kennis met die Suid Afrikaanse Spooweë	1969?	South African Railways Tourist Agency
Spiers, Edward M	Engines for empire : the Victorian army and its use of railways	2017	Manchester University Press	Manchester
Spiller, John Wyatt	Colonial railways 1929-1938: an economic review	1941	Journal of the ICE, 16 (8), 425-430
Stead, William Thomas	The Cape to Cairo railway	1899	Windsor Magazine, 363-374
Tabor, George	The Cape to Cairo Railway and River Routes	2003	Genta	London
Talbot, E	Steam from Kenya to the Cape	1975	Continental Railway Circle	Stafford
Tayler, Judith	Combating unfavourable conditions': experiments in scientific social work and community development in the South African Railways, 1935-1952	2004	Kleio, 36, 107-125
Taylor, J	Building railways and 'building character': the model villages in northern Natal, 1935-38	1994	Contree, 35, 32-38
Tennant, D	The railway system of South Africa	1897/8	Proceedings, Royal Colonial Institute, 29, 3-30
Thomas, David P	Bombardier and the Gautrain project in South Africa: the political economy of Canadian investment in a rapid rail megaproject	2013	Studies in Political Economy, 91 (1), 137-158
Travis, R	Railways of Africa	1930	Journal of the Institute of Transport, xxx, 224-232
Tshaai, DC	Demonstration of Smart Railway Level Crossing Design and Validation Using Data from Metro Rail, South Africa	2022	Journal of advanced transportation. Volume 2022
van den Hurk, George	The Netherlands South African Railway Company and the Postal Service of the South African Republic 1884-1902	1992	The Philatelic Federation of Southern Africa
van der Meulen, RD Parker, C. J. C.	FREIGHT RAILWAYS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM: AFRICA AS GLOBAL PLAYER?	1999	SOUTH AFRICAN TRANSPORT CONFERENCE.; Road infrastructure and concrete roads; Pretoria, 1999; Jul, 1999, 1 -- CSIR; 1999 -- 1999
van der Poel, Jean	Railway and Customs Policies in South Africa, 1885-1910	1933	Longmans	London
van der Poel, Jean	The Railway and Customs Policy of the African States and Colonies, 1885-1910	1929	PhD, University of London
van der Westhuizen, Janis	Glitz, glamour and the Gautrain: mega projects as political symbols	2007	Politikon, 34 (3), 333-351
van der Westhuizen, Janis	'Trains are sexy, buses are not': mega project mythology and South Africa's Gautrain	2008	Africa Insight, 38 (4), 1-9
van Eeden, Jeanne	South African Railways postcard calendars, 1961 to 1984	2014	South African Historical Journal, 66 (1), 79-103
van Helten, Jean Jacques	German capital, the Netherlands railway and the political economy of the Transvaal, 1886-1900	1978	Journal of African History, 19 (3), 369-390
van Lingen A	A CENTURY OF TRANSPORT	1960	Da Gama Publications	Johannesburg
van Onselen, Charles	The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955	2020	C Hurst & Co
Vernon, SP	Cape to Cairo railway	1899	Liberia Bulletin, 16, 30-40
Wardale, David	The Red Devil : and other tales from the age of steam	1998	D Wardale	Inverness
Wasserfall, Jaco	Early Mine and Railway Housing in South Africa: a Two Part study of Ideology and Design in Working-Class Housing	1990	PhD, Architecture, Cambridge University
Watt, John Mitchell (ed)	Formulary of the South African Railways and Harbours Sick Fund / Formulelys van die Siekefonds van die Suid-Afrikaanse Spoorwee en Hawens	1952	The South African Railways and Harbours Sick Fund	Pretoria
Weinthal, Leo	The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922	1924	The Pioneer Publishing Co. Ltd.,	London	There are 4 volumes and a map set in total
Wiener, Lionel	Les Chemins de fer coloniaux de l'Afrique	1930	Goemaere	Brussels
Wilburn, KE	The climax of railway competition in South Africa, 1887-1899	1982	University of Oxford
Wilburn, Kenneth E	The life of statesman and industrialist Sir James Sivewright of South Africa, 1848-1916 : builder of railways, telegraphs, and waterworks	c2010	Edwin Mellen Press	Lewiston, NY
Wilburn, Kenneth E	Engines of empire and independence: railways in South Africa, 1863-1916	1991	In Railway Imperialism, edited by .B Davis and Kenneth E Wilburn, pp. 25-40. Greenwood	Westport
Wilburn, Kenneth E	The Climax of Railway Competition in South Africa, 1886-1899	1982	DPhil, Oxford University
Williams, Alan	African Steam Safari: Albert Falls to Asmara	2018	Australian Railway Enthusiast Limited
Williams, Alan	African Steam Safari: Kisumu to The Great Karoo	2019	Australian Railway Enthusiast Limited
Williams, Robert	The Cape to Cairo railway	1921	Journal of the Royal African Society, 20 (80), 241-258
Williams, Robert	The Cape-to-Cairo railway from the point of view of African development	1922	Journal of the Central Asian Society, 9 (3), 147-166
Wills, JT	The Cape to Cairo, the Bulawayo - Tanganyika and other railways	1899	Contemporary Review, 75, 159-168
Woods, George	South African Steam in the 1970s	2018	Amberley Publishing
Wright, Laurence	Railway Poems of the Anglo-Boer War	2018	English Academy review: Southern African journal of English studies. Volume 35:Number 1 (2018, January 2nd); pp 96-119
Yates, BA	Railroads and waterways of Africa	1961	Journal of Geography, 60 (3), 120-135
Zachariah, O	Travel in South Africa	1927	South African Railways & Harbours
Zurnamer, BA	Electric and Diesel Locomotives of South Africa	1987	B.A. Zurnamer	Beaufort West
Zurnamer, Bernard	The locomotives of the South African railways	1970	the Author	Bainsvlei, O.F.S

Books and Journal Articles on Swaziland Railways

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Best, Alan CG	The Swaziland Railway: a Study in Politico-Economic Geography	1965	PhD, Michigan State University
Griffin, Sir Arthur & Reynolds, LC	REPORT ON COMMUNICATIONS IN SWAZILAND - CONFIDENTIAL	1956	High Commission, April 1956
Maasdorp, Gavin	Railway development in Swaziland, 1964-1986	1965	South African Journal of Economic History, 2 (1), 92-115
Maasdorp, Gavin	The vulnerability and role of railways in small landlocked states: the Swaziland example	1987	South African Journal of Economic History, 2 (2), 4-25
Whittington, Graeme	The Swaziland railway.	1966	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 57, 68-73

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