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Fig. 2.46: The daily “sand train” which ran from Salt River via the Cape Flats line to

Heathfield and on to Fish Hoek. It collected beach sand that was used for locomotive
sanding purposes. The photo by Frank Garrison shows a Class 6 loco and bogeys crossing
the new Kalk Bay viaduct in 1931.

Fig. 2.47: A Class 8B No. 1132 on the Fish Hoek turntable in 1979. (M. W. Bates.)