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Kowie Engine at Port Alfred

Item

“Kowie Engine at Port Alfred”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/13024

Title

Kowie Engine at Port Alfred

Description

Note on the bottom: “Kowie Engine” and “Port Alfred”. d. Note on the back: “The first two engines for 3’-6” gauge working between Port Alfred and Grahamstown Landed by SS Rothsay May 20th 1882 – Ran first trial trip from Port Alfred for 16 miles pn the 25th July 1882. Engine made my the Hunsletics & Leeds. The Kowie Engine was the passing engine [illegible] 22 Tom “Grahamstown” “Port Alfred” engine for Goods working washing 25 Tom or “Kowie”".,Kowie engine at Port Alfred.

Subject

Locomotives -- South Africa -- Port Alfred -- Photographs

Type

Image

Format

jpg

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10962/20522

Location - Physical Location

Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University

Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator

PIC/M 274

useGuidelines

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Item sets

Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Cory Library's miscellaneous images

Media

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Hierarchies

The Frontier Collection

• The 1820-Settlers (32 items)
• The Frontier Wars (92 items)
• The Development of Settler Towns (468 items)
  • Alice (40 items)
  • Bathurst (16 items)
  • Bedford (3 items)
  • Cathcart (5 items)
  • Cradock (200 items)
  • East London (22 items)
  • Grahamstown (91 items)
  • King William's Town (32 items)
  • Port Alfred (19 items)
  • Port Elizabeth (34 items)
  • Queenstown (6 items)

“Kowie Engine at Port Alfred”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/13024