Hi Heather I have tried without success to contact the Transnet Heritage Library & Archives for over a year now. I have used email, snail mail, phones and fax using the details provided below. If anyone has managed to contact them in recent months, please let us know. My understanding based on older conversations on RootsWeb Mailing Lists is that Transnet has dumped (locked up) all these records on the first floor of some building near Johannesburg Station. Due to lack of budget, it does not appear to know what to do with them. Regards Dave ------------------------------ Previous Message: Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 06:05:10 +0000 From: Heather MacAlister - Ancestry 24 <heather@ancestry24.co.za> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN] Railway employees. Hi Lynn Yes there are - Cape Town Archives if you look under the inventories of the T series in the reading room. Transnet does not hold staff records but has old Magazines that might hold valuable information. Regards Heather TRANSNET HERITAGE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES Address: Street: 96 Rissik Street, corner of Rissik and De Villiers Streets, Johannesburg Postal: P.O. Box 3753, Johannesburg, 2000 Telephone: (011) 773-9523 Fax: (011) 774-3415 E-Mail: EurikaD@transnet.co.za <mailto:EurikaD@transnet.co.za%3cmailto:EurikaD@transnet.co.za> <mailto:EurikaD@transnet.co.za> Website: http://www.transnetheritagefoundation.co.za Enquiries to: The Librarian Hours of opening: Monday - Friday 07h45-15h45 (except public holidays) Access: Open to the public. Brief history: The Transnet Heritage Library caters for the information needs of researchers and users interested in the history of transportation and the development of railways in South Africa since 1859. Acquisitions policy: The Transnet Heritage Library adds archival material to its collection which is regarded as historically relevant to Transnet's history. Areas of specialisation: Rail transportation (steam, diesel and electric, stations), Harbours (ships, tugs, lighthouses), Airways (airports, aircraft, special flights), Pipelines, Road transport (road motor vehicles, buses, abnormal loads) etc. Information on the Anglo Boer War/South African War, World War I and II. Civil Engineering (bridges, railway buildings, harbour developments), Mechanical Engineering (tracks and permanent way, railway workshop), Electrical Engineering (electrification of railway lines, signaling and train control). Core holdings: Publications (books, magazines, archival material and photographs) relating to Transnet and its predecessors, i.e. CGR, NGR, NZASM, OVSS, IMR, SAR & H, SATS, Private Railway Companies (annual reports, departmental reports, timetables, staff magazines, publicity brochures etc). Finding aids: Holdings are in the process of being computerised. Catalogue available on the internet in 2006. Heather MacAlister Channel Manager E heather@ancestry24.co.za T +27 (021) 468 8957 F +27 (0)86 5810390 Join us on Facebook twitter.com/ancestry24 | skype.com/ancestry24 7th Floor , 11 Adderley Street, Cape Town, 8000 | www.ancestry24.co.za

Hi Dave I have just recently read an email on the SAR Mailing list from the now retired historian who handed a perfectly good and well referenced SAR history archieve over to to Transnet that the whole archive is now a total shambles without any filing system and documents scattered all over the place. No budget is allocated and no one cares particulary, so history is likely to end up on a dump somewhere. :o( SAR history will become history in a much sadder sense! Regards Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Long" <dave.long@telkomsa.net> To: <south-africa-cape-town@rootsweb.com> Cc: <SOUTH-AFRICA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] [SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN] Railway Employees. > Hi Heather > > > > I have tried without success to contact the Transnet Heritage Library & > Archives for over a year now. I have used email, snail mail, phones and > fax > using the details provided below. If anyone has managed to contact them in > recent months, please let us know. > > > > My understanding based on older conversations on RootsWeb Mailing Lists is > that Transnet has dumped (locked up) all these records on the first floor > of > some building near Johannesburg Station. Due to lack of budget, it does > not > appear to know what to do with them. > > > > Regards > > Dave > > ------------------------------ > > > > Previous Message: > > Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 06:05:10 +0000 > > From: Heather MacAlister - Ancestry 24 <heather@ancestry24.co.za> > > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN] Railway employees. > > > > Hi Lynn > > > > Yes there are - Cape Town Archives if you look under the inventories of > the > T series in the reading room. > > > > Transnet does not hold staff records but has old Magazines that might hold > valuable information. > > > > Regards > > > > Heather > > > > > > > > TRANSNET HERITAGE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES > > > > > > Address: > > > > Street: 96 Rissik Street, corner of Rissik and De Villiers Streets, > Johannesburg > > Postal: P.O. Box 3753, Johannesburg, 2000 > > > > Telephone: > > > > (011) 773-9523 > > > > Fax: > > > > (011) 774-3415 > > > > E-Mail: > > > > EurikaD@transnet.co.za > <mailto:EurikaD@transnet.co.za%3cmailto:EurikaD@transnet.co.za> > <mailto:EurikaD@transnet.co.za> > > > > Website: > > > > http://www.transnetheritagefoundation.co.za > > > > Enquiries to: > > > > The Librarian > > > > Hours of opening: > > > > Monday - Friday 07h45-15h45 > > (except public holidays) > > > > Access: > > > > Open to the public. > > > > > > Brief history: The Transnet Heritage Library caters for the information > needs of researchers and users interested in the history of transportation > and the development of railways in South Africa since 1859. > > > > Acquisitions policy: The Transnet Heritage Library adds archival material > to > its collection which is regarded as historically relevant to Transnet's > history. > > > > Areas of specialisation: Rail transportation (steam, diesel and electric, > stations), Harbours (ships, tugs, lighthouses), Airways (airports, > aircraft, > special flights), Pipelines, Road transport (road motor vehicles, buses, > abnormal loads) etc. Information on the Anglo Boer War/South African War, > World War I and II. Civil Engineering (bridges, railway buildings, harbour > developments), Mechanical Engineering (tracks and permanent way, railway > workshop), Electrical Engineering (electrification of railway lines, > signaling and train control). > > > > Core holdings: Publications (books, magazines, archival material and > photographs) relating to Transnet and its predecessors, i.e. CGR, NGR, > NZASM, OVSS, IMR, SAR & H, SATS, Private Railway Companies (annual > reports, > departmental reports, timetables, staff magazines, publicity brochures > etc). > > > > Finding aids: Holdings are in the process of being computerised. Catalogue > available on the internet in 2006. > > > > > > > > > > > > Heather MacAlister > > > > Channel Manager > > > > E heather@ancestry24.co.za > > > > T +27 (021) 468 8957 > > > > F +27 (0)86 5810390 > > > > Join us on Facebook > > > > twitter.com/ancestry24 | skype.com/ancestry24 > > > > 7th Floor , 11 Adderley Street, Cape Town, 8000 | www.ancestry24.co.za > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message