Talk:Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa

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Is the Sheba Tramway built with two foot rail gauge?

I found several pages concerning the Sheba Tramway. Although there is no confirmation of the rail gauge, photographs indicate a two foot gauge track. Can anyone clarify this?

The links:

Aaron-Tripel (talk)

The second image on the last link lists the branch as being 2ft 6in. "A loco laying a power cable. The tramway was unique in that it was one of only five two-feet-six-inch gauge lines in South Africa." -- Firefishy (talk) 11:16, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have a copy of Industrial Railway Record (IRC) June 1982 (No. 93) which has an article 'The Sheba Tramway by K.P. Plant'. The article says 2ft 6in gauge. Happy to forward a copy of the article on request. -- Firefishy (talk) 11:35, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Paxton-Bourne":

From South African Class NG8 4-6-0: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 104, 113, 156. ISBN 0869772112.
From CGR NG 4-6-2T 1908: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 113, 156. ISBN 0869772112.
From CGR Type C 0-4-0T: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 111, 157. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG G14 2-6-2+2-6-2: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 10–11, 107. ISBN 0869772112.
From CGR Type A 2-6-4T: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 112, 156. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG3 4-6-2T: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 101–102, 110. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African NG 0-4-0T 1899: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. p. 114. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG9 4-6-0: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 104, 110. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG2 0-4-2T: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 100–101. ISBN 0869772112.
From 0-4-2: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 20–25, 98–101, 110. ISBN 0869772112.
From 1937 in South Africa: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG10 4-6-2: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 104–105, 110. ISBN 0869772112.
From NGR Class N 4-6-2T 1906: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 110–111, 157. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG1 0-4-0T: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 99–100, 110. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG15 2-8-2: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 10–11, 108. ISBN 0869772112.
From 2-6-0: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 0869772112.^: 16
From South African Class NG G12 2-6-2+2-6-2: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 106–107, 110. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class 91-000: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. p. 144. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Zwillinge 0-6-0T: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. p. 117, 121. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG G16 2-6-2+2-6-2: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 10–11, 107, 109–110. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG6 4-4-0: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 103–104. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG7 2-6-0: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 104, 112. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG G16A 2-6-2+2-6-2: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 10–11, 78–79, 107, 109–110. ISBN 0869772112.
From South African Class NG G11 2-6-0+0-6-2: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 105–106. ISBN 0869772112.
From CGR NG 0-6-0T 1903: Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 111–112, 157. ISBN 0869772112.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:31, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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