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Cape Government Railways

A photograph of the Port Elizabeth – Uitenhage railway line in 1877
The crest of the now defunct Cape Government Rails as seen in the Cape Town central train station.

The Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways (SAR) in 1910.


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