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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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d. Even at normal times itis a busy place where people of all nationalities may be meton their way to and from the goldfields of South Africa,but the present war has caused a ceaseless activity difficultto imagine by those who have not witnessed it. Being theprincipal base for the military operations, its resources and carried out in accordance with the act of Parliament datedOct. 20, 1899, entitled the Camps Bay tramways act. Thecompany which undertook to build the road under thisact is known as the Camps Bay, Cape Town & Sea PointTramways Company, and it is to the enterprise of thiscompany that the districts owe these lines, which are nowcompleted. As will be understood from the title of theroad, the system is in reality an extension of the existingCape Town Tramways, although pioneered and workedby a separate company. The main route may be described as semi-circular. Forthe purposes of this description it may be well to com-mence at the Round Church, Sea Point, on the southwest
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GENERAL VIEW OF PART OF ROUTE, ASCENDING GRADE capabilities have been taxed to their utmost. A consid-erable percentage of the dock space has been entirelymonopolized by the soldiers, who have also had the rail-ways under their control. This, of course, has all tendedto increase the difficulties of carrying on any form of con-struction work. Not only has labor been very scarce, butthe delivery of many of the materials has been most diffi-cult. Some of the ships having these on board have beenin the harbor months before obtaining a berth. However,notwithstanding these and other drawbacks, an electrictramway system comprising 9 miles of what is probablvthe most difficult trackwork in the world, with the possibleexception of the Gorge road at Niagara Falls, has recentlvbeen completed near Cape Town. The construction and equipment of the line has been of Cape Town. Junction is made at this point with theexisting tramway, and from there the line commences toascend, gradually at first, but

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