While not wishing to be a pessimist, I speak of about 20 years experience of dealing with Spoornet and the various other names that they have had from time to time. Don't hold out any hope of receiving a reply. As to the chances of them having the information you seek, I am pretty certain that Spoornet does not have it. I can tell horrifying tales of valuable historical information that has been dumped all over the country. It is just possible that you may find what you want at one of the Archives. Please remember that around the turn of the Century, South African Railways did not exist. The Railways that did exist were: Cape Government Railways Natal Government Railways NZASM - railways in the Transvaal Republic OVGS - railways in the Orange Free State Republic The Pretoria - Pietersburg Railway The Imperial Military Railways - run by the British army during the Boer War The Central South African Railways. This was British controlled which took over from the Imperial Military Railways on 1 July 1902 and ran all the raiways in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, until the formation of South African Railways, in 1910. There were also a few more, privately owned railways. If you know where your ancestors lived, I would suggest that you try the Archives for that area. I know, for example that the Cape Archives has a great deal of material on the Cape Government Railways. Good Luck. Wally Greig