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Robert De Jong is one of the foremost experts on the Nederlansche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NZASM). The article, which looks at various structures associated with the Rand Tram, appeared in a number of publications in the late 1980s.

The Uitlander population on the Witwatersrand got their railway before the Government was able to run any train to Delagoa Bay. In the end this line, started as a humble transport arrangement for coal to the 'diggings', was to carry the heaviest rail traffic in the ZAR. The Rand Tram proved to be the first and one of the most successful exercises of railway construction in the Transvaal.

This first part entitled "NZASM Structures of the Rand Tram" is available on The Heritage Portal's website at http://www.heritageportal.co.za/article ... -rand-tram.

Part 2, entitled "NZASM Structures of the Southern Line" is posted at http://www.heritageportal.co.za/article ... thern-line.