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Identifier: electricrailway531919newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of South Africa.Horse cars have completely disappeared, but nearly everytown with more than 10,000 white inhabitants has anelectric railway line of some kind. Nearly all of the SouthAfrican lines are run partly or wholly by the munici-palities or town councils. Cape Town and Port Eliza-beth have private companies, but it is expected that thetwo electric railway companies in Cape Town will soonbe municipalized. Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, PortElizabeth, East London and Pietermaritzburg have trol-ley systems. Germiston and Boksburg, practically sub-urbs of Johannesburg, and Bloemfontein, the chief cityof Orange Free State, operate trackless trolley cars, butthey cannot be said to be a great success. Benoni, afast-rising city on the Gold Reef near Germiston andBoksburg, has Edison storage-battery motor-buses. Pre-toria, the last town in South Africa to give up horsecars, has the best-laid track and the best cars in SouthAfrica. All the Pretoria cars are single-deckers and
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THE FIRST VIEW SHOWS A CAR AT PRETORIA—THE JOHANNESBURG SYSTEM, ILLUSTRATED IN THE OTHER VIEWS. USES DOUBLE-DECK CARS 686 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. 14

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