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The following lists events that happened during 1904 in South Africa.

Incumbents

Events

February

June

  • 22 – The first of 62,000 Chinese labourers arrive in South Africa to relieve the shortage of unskilled mine workers.

Unknown date

  • Der shtral, a Yiddish-language newspaper is founded.[1]
  • The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) is established in Cape Town.

Births

Deaths

Railways

SAR Class 6L
SAR Class 5B
SAR Class 8Z
CGR Type B
NGR Class E
NGR Class B
CSAR Class 10
CSAR Class F
CSAR Class M

Railway lines opened

  • 1 February – Cape Western – Maitland to Ottery, 7 miles (11.3 kilometres).[6]
  • 1 March – Cape Midland – Le Roux to Oudtshoorn, 16 miles 41 chains (26.6 kilometres).[7]
  • 7 June – Cape Western – Paarl to Franschhoek, 17 miles 10 chains (27.6 kilometres).[7]
  • 15 June – Free State – Thaba 'Nchu to Modderpoort, 45 miles 73 chains (73.9 kilometres).[6]
  • 17 August – Cape Eastern – Indwe to Xalanga, 31 miles 3 chains (50.0 kilometres).[7]
  • 1 September – Free State – Hamilton to Tempe, 4 miles (6.4 kilometres).[6]
  • 7 September – Cape Eastern – Amabele to Komga, 27 miles (43.5 kilometres).[7]
  • 17 October – Cape Eastern – Middledrift to Adelaide, 56 miles 64 chains (91.4 kilometres).[7]
  • 3 November – Natal – Pietermaritzburg to Elandskop, 35 miles 39 chains (57.1 kilometres).[6]
  • December – Cape Western – Artois to Ceres Road, 4 miles 38 chains (7.2 kilometres).[6]
  • 15 December – Transvaal – Langlaagte to Vereeniging, 44 miles 56 chains (71.9 kilometres).[6]

Locomotives

Cape
Natal
  • Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Natal Government Railways (NGR):
    • Twenty-five Class E 4-8-2 Mountain type tank locomotives. In 1912 they will become the Class G on the SAR.[8][12]
    • Fifty Class B 4-8-0 Mastodon type mainline steam locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 1 on the SAR.[8][9]
  • The Natal Harbours Department places a single 0-6-0 saddle-tank locomotive named Sir Albert in service as dock shunter in Durban Harbour.[13]
Transvaal

References

  1. ↑ Poliva, Joseph Abraham. A Short History of the Jewish Press and Literature of South Africa from Its Earliest Days Until the Present Time. Johannesburg: Prompt Printing Co, 1961. p. 62
  2. ↑ Hall, B. T.; Schulze, H. (2000). "The Cricketing Brothers Tancred, Part 2". The Cricket Statistician. Cardiff: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (112): 7–14.
  3. ↑ "LATE HEAD OF THE BOER REPUBLIC PASSES AWAY IN HIS HAVEN IN SWITZERLAND Close of Patriot's Remarkable Career Marks the End of an Epoch in South African History". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 44. 14 July 1904. Page 1, columns 5-7; page 3, columns 5-6. Retrieved 20 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  4. ↑ "BOERS MOURN CHIEF'S DEATH Flags on All Government Buildings in Pretoria Are Placed at Half-Mast SORROW OF BURGHERS Memorial Services Will Be Held in Dutch Churches Throughout the Transvaal". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 45. 15 July 1904. Page 4, column 2. Retrieved 16 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  5. ↑ "1904 Arlington Journal" (PDF). Arlington, Texas. p. 108. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 185, ref. no. 200954-13
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 54, 56, 64–67, 71–72, 99–101, 127–129. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 10–11, 32, 34–35, 39, 44, 48–49, 51–52, 54, 56, 84, 104, 113. ISBN 0869772112.
  10. ↑ Classification of S.A.R. Engines with Renumbering Lists, issued by the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office, Pretoria, January 1912, pp. 9, 12, 15, 36 (Reprinted in April 1987 by SATS Museum, R.3125-6/9/11-1000)
  11. ↑ Bagshawe, Peter (2012). Locomotives of the Namaqualand Railway and Copper Mines (1st ed.). Stenvalls. pp. 25–27, 40. ISBN 978-91-7266-179-0.
  12. ↑ South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2’0" & 3’6" Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, pp21 & 21A, as amended
  13. 1 2 Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 110, 130–131, 140. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
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