rogerfarnworth Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 The April 1951 edition of The Railway Magazine carried a short article about a 2ft-gauge logging line in South Africa. The article was entitled, The Stinkwood Line. It drew my attention and I thought that it was worth investigation. It turns out that the article was not as accurate as it might have been and it also failed to let magazine readers know that by the time of publication the line had been closed for at least 18 months. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/04/15/the-stinkwood-railway 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Quite intriguing, what an interesting discovery! I’m not aware of the railway being described in other published works. Surely it can’t be that the author of the Railway Magazine article is the politician famous for the 1944 Education Act and overlooked for the leadership of his party in the ‘fifties? The illustrations would suggest that the locomotive stock was wider than that listed. Former class NG3 no. 4 was a 4-6-2T built by Hawthorn Leslie, whilst the open cab 0-6-0T has something of a Fowler appearance. If it’s ok, I can try some other groups that may have more expertise on this railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerfarnworth Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Yes EddieB, please do what you wish. I am happy for this to be shared. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Before asking more widely, I've gone back over some of the references. The Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Western_Railway_(South_Africa) is very helpful. The book "24 Inches Apart" (Moir, 1963) has a short chapter and three photographs. (Two of the photographs are of the same train, delivering round corrugated iron tanks; there is an open "safety" wagon in front of the locomotive to minimise recovery time in the event of derailment). I can extend the table on the Wikipedia page in respect of the locomotive stock - adding works numbers and equivalent Whyte notation. Please note that the "Coffee Pot" article (linked no. 4 from your web page) has the wheel arrangement of the first two shown incorrectly. Number / Year / Builder / Works number / Wheel arrangement / Comment 1 1906 Orenstein & Koppel 1775 B1' n2t (0-4-2T) Wood fired 2 1907 Orenstein & Koppel 2240 C1' n2t (0-6-2T) Wood fired 3 1911 Orenstein & Koppel 4880 D n2t (0-8-0T) Wood fired 4 1934 Hawthorn Leslie & Co 2687 2'C1' n2t (4-6-2T) Ex-SAR NG 3 Nr. 4, 1907 Spark arresting chimneys would be fairly normal for wood burning locomotives, especially those operating in forested country. There are good, clear pictures of nos. 3 and 4 on pp 13-14 of this piece: http://www.historycape.co.za/files/7714/3783/3895/RHG_Bulletin_no_129_part_2.pdf Wikipedia mentions one of the locomotives being sold into industrial service in Witwatersrand. Despite various incomplete and overlapping lists, I've been unable to identify which one it was and where it went. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerfarnworth Posted May 21, 2019 Author Share Posted May 21, 2019 Interesting EddieB. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 21, 2019 Share Posted May 21, 2019 Yes, I was going to mention Moir's book. Don't some of the maps you've used originate in that? Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerfarnworth Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 Not aware of this Kevin. You may well be right. I have searched around over the internet and may have picked things from another site rather than from a primary source. If so, my apologies. I can only plead ignorance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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