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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
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Contributing Library: Engineering – University of Toronto
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t De Aar (85 miles)then north to Kimberley (140 miles). Thus the total distance fromJohannesburg is 660 miles. The republics might set their faces againstrailway developments which would have shortened such circuitousroutes as these. But these and like anomalies will be swept away nowthe development of the sub-continent is being carried out under Impe-rial British auspices, now British brains will have something to sayin respect of new schemes and development. In my estimation the construction of the Klerksdorp-FourteenStreams line comes within the class of lines of primary importance.For years it has been proposed to build a new line south of the exist-ing one along the mines from Boksburg to the west of Johannesburg.The Rand Tram, as it was originally styled, can only be called mod-erately convenient as regards supply of coal and stores to the goldmines. For the convenience of the deep-level and second deep-levelcompanies a new line about a mile to the south is required.* Indeed, it
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WARMBATH STATION. A TYPICAL BUILDING UN THE PRETORIA-PIETERSBURG LINE. is not looking too far ahead to express the opinion that before manyyears have passed a third line will be imperative for the economical de-velopment of the deepest-level areas. Both these lines would deal al-most exclusively with coal, goods, and general-supply traffic for themines. Passenger traffic, if any, would be meagre. Some of the out-crop mines would be more conveniently served by the new southernline than the present one. The existing line from Krugersdorp on the west to Boksburg onthe east, traversing the principal mines and extending to a distance ofabout 40 miles, might be reserved mainly for passenger traffic. With * This line has been in part graded by the military authorities. RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA. 187
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