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minimum and 40 000 gallons maximum supply per day at 1s 3d per 1 000 for a period
of five years.

Councillor Powell seconded, and the motion was unanimously agreed to.

The Wynberg Times: 21 January, 1905.

Kalk Bay Notes
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It is safe to assert that nobody who re-visits Kalk Bay after a few weeks’ absence will
be prepared to witness the startling improvements which have just been made to the
place by the much-maligned Government Department – the Railway. In no case could
the needs of the pretty little fishing village have been better catered for than the
bountiful consideration which some official has shown towards it. Overlooking, and
some parts at high water overhanging, the sea, a splendid promenade, 500 feet long and
20 feet broad, has been constructed for the purpose of a platform. The structure is nearly
railed in, and has a set of steps leading down to the sands. The improvement is all the
more welcome because the least expected, and it supplies a great public want which is
experienced at every one of our seaside resorts.

The Wynberg Times: 1 April, 1905.

Kalk Bay Notes
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A sad accident occurred at the Railway Station on Saturday afternoon. A porter,
Petersen by name, was directing the operation of an engine, which was shunting trucks
in the goods yard, when he lost his footing and fell, so that the wheels of the engine and
tender passed over the lower portion of his body, severing one leg completely and
terribly crushing and mangling the other. The unfortunate man was picked up and sent
on by the first train to the Victoria Cottage Hospital, Wynberg, where the remaining
limb was amputated. He gradually sank from the shock, and expired on Sunday
morning. Petersen was quite a young man, and very popular amongst his railway
associates. It is said he was riding with one foot on the cow-catcher, holding on by the
lamp-bracket at the time of the mishap.

After the 1912 re-numbering of all SA locomotives all the “Wynberg Tenders” were

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classed as obsolete. They thus became Class 03, as the “Wynberg Tanks” (Cape 2
Class) became Class 02. The Class 03 were fast and reliable locomotives and ended

their lives at Port Elizabeth and Germiston.