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Namib Narrow Gauge by Sidney M. Moir H.T. Crittenden w/dust jacket
Namib Narrow Gauge by Sidney M. Moir H.T. Crittenden
Namib Narrow Gauge
Sydney M. Moir & H.T. Crittenden
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
154 Pages
Copyright 1982 2nd Edition
Chapters
CHAPTERPAGE
1. In the Beginning 5
Damaraland Guano Railway9
Walvis Bay Railway 11
2. State Northern Railway15
3. Otavi Railway Construction31
4. Otavi Railway Consolidation52
5. Municipal Systems71
6. The 1914 War78
7. The Years of Change 1915-22 91
8. Trouble and Prosperity: 1923-29109
9. Economic Seesaw: 1930-45 127
10. Excess Prosperity: 1946-60 141
This detailed account of the birth of narrow gauge railways in South West Africa, their struggle against geography and the tribulations of War, and in some cases their supplanting by lines of a wider gauge, is the result of some twenty years of research by the joint authors. Much of what is told survives in written form nowhere else, for documentation of the narrow gauge in Africa, unlike Britain, has never been strong. Probably the world will never see again a situation where the narrow gauge train was the only means of movement, for carrying water, for a funeral, for a weekend picnic, for the Government's officers to do their business. These lines which spread through the deep gorges and across the drifting sands had a character all their own.
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