1926_in_South_Africa
1926 in South Africa
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1926 in South Africa.
- March
- 13 – The first commercial air route from South Africa is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.
- October
- 10 – The South African National War Memorial next to Delville Wood outside Longueval, France is opened.
- 10 – The Sabie Game Reserve is renamed to Kruger National Park.
- 23 May – Joe Slovo, politician, in Obeliai, Lithuania. (d.1995)
- 11 September; Gerrit Viljoen, government minister. (d. 2009)
- 15 October – Rexon Mathebula, artist, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
- 24 December – Ronald Draper, cricketer
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Railway lines opened
- 18 January – Transvaal – Villiers, Free State to Grootvlei, 19 miles 39 chains (31.4 kilometres).[1]
- 7 June – Free State – Harrismith to Warden, 35 miles 33 chains (57.0 kilometres).[1]
- 18 August – Cape – Upington to Kakamas (Narrow gauge), 54 miles 63 chains (88.2 kilometres).[1]
- 1 September – Cape – Addo to Sunland, 6 miles 1 chain (9.7 kilometres).[1]
- 15 September – Natal – Mtubatuba to Candover, 110 miles 70 chains (178.4 kilometres).[1]
- 19 November – Cape – Katberg to Seymour (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 30 chains (15.1 kilometres).[1]
- 22 November – Transvaal – Citrus to Plaston, 17 miles 48 chains (28.3 kilometres).[1]
- 8 December – Cape – Klawer to Landplaas, 50 miles 37 chains (81.2 kilometres).[1]
Locomotives
Three Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
- The first twenty-three Class 15CA 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.[2][3]
- Four Class FD 2-6-2+2-6-2 Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotives.[2][3]
- To address a shortage of suitable shunting locomotives, the first of twenty-one ex Natal Government Railways Class D1 4-8-2 tank locomotives are rebuilt to Class 17 4-8-0 tank-and-tender locomotives.[2][4]
- Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13
- Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 26–27, 61–62, 68, 97. ISBN 0869772112.
- Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 46, 49–51. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
- South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2'0" & 3'6" Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended