Railways 1884 in South Africa

cgr 3rd class 4-4-0



cgr 4th class 4-6-0tt



31 march – cape midland – noupoort de aar, link cape western system, 69 miles 6 chains (111.2 kilometres).
may – natal – pietermaritzburg merrivale, 15 miles 19 chains (24.5 kilometres).
16 september – cape eastern – sterkstroom molteno, 20 miles 69 chains (33.6 kilometres).
3 november – cape western – victoria west road oranjerivier, 150 miles 69 chains (242.8 kilometres).
1 december – kowie – port alfred grahamstown, 44 miles (70.8 kilometres).

locomotives

the cape government railways places 2 experimental 3rd class 4-4-0 tender , 4 experimental 4th class 4-6-0 tank-and-tender locomotives in service, designed cape eastern system able use low-grade local coal high content of incombustible matter.




^ report year ending 31 december 1909, cape government railways, section viii - dates of opening , length of different sections in cape colony, year 1873 31st december, 1909.
^ statement showing, in chronological order, date of opening , mileage of each section of railway, statement no. 19, p. 182, ref. no. 200954-13
^ holland, d.f. (1971). steam locomotives of south african railways. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). newton abbott, devon: david & charles. pp. 35–36. isbn 978-0-7153-5382-0. 
^ c.g.r. numbering revised, article dave littley, sa rail may–june 1993, pp. 94-95.