Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3326DB6
    Site Name
    Port Alfred Railway Station, Port Alfred
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Built Environment Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -33.589743, 26.889183
      KML File
      Erf1366.kml (4.9 KB)
      Eastern Cape
      • Sarah Baartman
      • Ndlambe
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 1366
      Port Alfred
      Owner(s)
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      This station building, which dates from the early 1880s, was presumably erected by George Pauling, the local Railway Engineer, for the firm R Firbank & Co, to whom the building contract was granted. This buikding is not only closely associated with the history of the Kowie Railway Company and its successor, the Kowie Railway Syndicate, but also forms an integral part of the present railway system between Port Alfred and Grahamstown.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The historic old Railway Station Building, situate on certain Erf 1366, Port Alfred, in the Municipality of Port Alfred, Division of Bathurst.
      Deed of Transfer 14452/1956, dated 9 October 1956.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      9581
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      213
      Archive Status
      National monument
      9581-213_0.pdf (189.58 KB)
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