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    The Avontuur Railway is a closed railway line between Gqeberha and the town of Avontuur in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. It...
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    It was introduced on the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge Avontuur Railway of the South African Railways in 1973. Russian trains are rarely longer than about...
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    uncertain. The river from which the town takes its name was known in 1778. Avontuur Railway Langkloof Water Services National Information System - Community Report...
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    100 km, all gone. Free_State: 26 km private. Port Elizabeth–Avontuur / Patensie The Avontuur Railway was built from 1890 to 1905, and is 285 kilometres (177 mi)...
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    the production of railway sleepers. Also a connection to Avontuur, the terminus of the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge Avontuur Railway to Port Elizabeth was...
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  • species (Tauraco corythaix) occurring here. Loerie had a railway station on the Avontuur Railway which closed in 2011. In 1930, the Eastern Province Cement...
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    locomotives in service on its narrow-gauge Avontuur Railway between Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape and Avontuur in the Western Cape. Some of them later...
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    South African Class NG G16 2-6-2+2-6-2 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1937)
    Garratt articulated 2-6-2+2-6-2 steam locomotives in service on the Avontuur Railway and on the Natal narrow gauge lines. The success of the Class NG G13...
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    narrow-gauge line from Port Elizabeth to Avontuur. As a result of heavy traffic demands on the Otavi Railway in South West Africa (SWA), three additional...
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    extreme of the Eastern Cape. The town has a station on the narrow gauge Avontuur Railway. "Main Place Joubertina". Census 2011. "Dictionary of Southern African...
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