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Title: Old railway station, Cape Town, circa 1965
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Transport, Urban development
Description: Looking into the first railway station in Cape Town, from the Castle.
Identifier: islandora:17430

Title: Bellville railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Railways, Architecture, South Africa. Separate Amenities Act, 1953, Transport
Description: Entrance to the Bellville Station, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:16811

Title: S.A.R & H diagram of stations & sidings showing transhipping stations = Kaart van stasies & sylyne aantonende oorlaaistasies
Subject: Railroad stations -- South Africa --Maps, Railroad stations -- Namibia --Maps, ,
Description: Map showing South African and Namibian railway stations. Insets of Johannesburg-Pretoria and Environs, Cape Town and Environs and B.C.K. Lines. No scale given.
Identifier: islandora:25057

Title: Culemborg goods station, Cape Town, circa 1952
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Transport, Infrastructure, Urban development, City planning
Description: One of the huge loading banks at the new Culemborg goods station, which was opened for traffic over the weekend. A feature of the station is the large number of weighing scales scattered along the platforms.
Identifier: islandora:17396

Title: Demolition of the old Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Urban development, Railways, Demolition, Architecture
Description: Soon the walls will come down, too - and a new phoenix rise out of the ashes of the old station.
Identifier: islandora:17410

Title: Construction of the Cape Town railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Landscapes, Architecture
Description: Aerial view shows the progress on the new R13.9m. Cape Town Railway Station. Cape Town's new railway station takes shape: This aerial view shows how work is progressing on the new R13.9m. Cape Town railway station. Five main-line platforms will be brought into service towards the end of next year and the non-White main-line station building will be opened at the same time. The station as a whole will not be finished till 1965.The lettered structures in the picture are: A - The bridge which will link Eastern Boulevard with Hertzog Boulevard on the Foreshore. B - Part of the Culemborg goods yard offices. C - The signal cabin for the new station. D - The Pirow Street bridge. E - The parcels building, which has been in use since May 1. F - Canopies over some of the new main-line platforms. G - Canopies over suburban line platforms. H - The communications building. I - Parts of the deck. The striped area indicates the full extent to be decked. J - The existing station. K - The non-White main-line station building. L - The Castle. M - The New Drill Hall which, with other military buildings next to it, will disappear to make way for part of the traffic interchange linking with the Pirow Street bridge. N - The Sir Lowry Road market, now in process of demolition. Much of its site will be used for traffic interchanges serving the Eastern Boulevard and Pirow Street bridges.
Identifier: islandora:16170

Title: Cafeteria in the new train station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: New station canteen.
Identifier: islandora:16166

Title: Demolition of the old railway station, Cape Town, 1968
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Demolition, Architecture, Urban development, City planning
Description: Demolition of the old railway station, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17420

Title: Athlone Power Station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries, Pollution
Description: Shrouded in early morning mist -- to which they are contributing generously -- are the twin towers of Athlone Power Station seen from De Waal Drive. In the background are the natural towers of the Hottentots Holland Mountains.
Identifier: islandora:18124

Title: Near old Cape Town Station, pre-1960s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition
Description: Area around the old Cape Town Station, prior to its demolition in the 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:17436

Title: Railway station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Architecture, Interior decoration
Description: Railway station, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16153

Title: Plot 24 [Met Station (Cathedral Peak)][24]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9297

Title: Old railway station, Cape Town, 1967
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Architecture, Urban development, City planning, Transport
Description: Bird's eye view of the old railway station, Cape Town, before demolition.
Identifier: islandora:17424

Title: People protest in a train station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Demonstration
Description: People protest in a train station, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16156

Title: Apartheid signage, Cape Town Station, 1966
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Apartheid, Race discrimination, Transport, Railways
Description: Non-white concourse on Cape Town Station.
Identifier: islandora:17426

Title: Near old Cape Town Station, pre-1960s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition, Transport
Description: Area around the old Cape Town Station, prior to its demolition in the 1960s.
Identifier: islandora:17437

Title: Cooling towers of Athlone power station, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Athlone (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries
Description: Cooling towers of Athlone power station, Cape Town
Identifier: islandora:18122

Title: A Camel Thorn tree in front of the Witdraai Police Station
Subject: San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Acacia erioloba---Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: In 1937, |Una Rooi and her grandparents were forced to move to Upington, South Africa. They learnt that their homes were burnt and all their possessions and land taken. They were forced to live in the limestone grottoes at Witdraai in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. When |Una's father, Ari, reported this to the police at the Witdraai Police Station, he was violently beaten and left for dead.
Identifier: islandora:27081

Title: Electric station at Mouille Point, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Mouille Point (Cape Town, South Africa), Urban areas, Infrastructure, Electric industries
Description: Where the Atlantic cable ends. How many people know that this little electric station on the beach at Mouille Point houses the end of the Atlantic cable?
Identifier: islandora:18119

Title: Dock Road power station, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), History, Demolition, Electricity
Description: Familiar landmark of Dock Road power station, the first power station in South Africa, is going. After 57 years of service, it is being demolished. Familiar landmark of the Table Bay power station will soon be gone. It is to be demolished by a Port Elizabeth scrap-metal firm and its machinery and metal parts sold throughout the country. The power station, built in 1905, is the oldest in South Africa. The picture was taken from the air.
Identifier: islandora:18100

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