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DELETED: WOMAT/AFR/NAT/25
- Record Id:
- 040-003432250
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225695
- MDARK:
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- DELETED: WOMAT/AFR/NAT/25
- Title:
- N[atal]G[overnment]R[ailways]. Natal Cape Railway. Plan shewing Line from Pietermaritzburg to Cape Border'. Created by 'W.H. Cobley Sup[erin]t[ending] Engineer Surveys & Const[ructio]n. 17.6.03.
- Scope & Content:
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Covers the proposed rail corridor in southern Natal from Pietermaritzburg 50 miles south-westwards to the border with Cape Colony to a width of approximately 8 miles. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and occasional form lines, roads, settlements, farm boundaries, place names and the proposed railway line.
The sheet bears the references 'E.C.O. 9774' and 'D.O. No. 12560'; the references 'E.C.R.' [?] and 'F/3844' have been added in manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225695
036-002225925
037-002225954
038-003421216
040-003432250 - Is part of:
- WOA : War Office Archive: cartographic and topographic source material
WOMAT : War Office 'Material'
WOMAT/AFR : 'Material - Africa'.
WOMAT/AFR/NAT : Material. Natal.
DELETED : WOMAT/AFR/NAT/25: N[atal]G[overnment]R[ailways]. Natal Cape Railway. Plan shewing Line from Pietermaritzburg to Cape Border'. Created… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002225695[0001]/036-002225925[0001]/037-002225954[0010]/038-003421216[0019]/040-003432250
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WOA
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 map sheet
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1903
- End Date:
- 1903
- Date Range:
- 1903
- Era:
- CE
- Scale:
- Scale 1:63,360
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 29.6969,-30.0881,30.3931,-29.5753
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 29°41’49”-E 30°23’35”/S 29°34’31”-S 30°5’17”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
- Unavailable as awaiting conservation
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Reverse blue-print, with manuscript additions in coloured ink and pencil; 37 x 145cm
- Former External References:
- Mat. Natal. 25.
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
-
An account of the railway survey may be found at:
- Report by Engineer-in-Chief, Natal Government Railways on Cape-Natal Railway Survey (1900), DO 119/628, National Archives, Kew