Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		NZASM South-Western Line Railway Station Potchefstroom, North West NZASM: Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij: Architect Mattheus Carel August MEISCHKE: Contractor

Date: 1897 Type: Railway Station Status: Demolished 1918   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°42'41.07" S 27°05'05.12" E Alt: 1353m

The First Railway Station. It was demolished to make way for the Second Railway Station built in 1918. A large, simple rectangular brick structure with pitched roof and pointed gables, accommodating the station-master's house, luggage room, entrance hall, office waiting room and toilets, the planning similar to those NZASM railway stations at Klerksdorp, Krugersdorp and Heidelberg. Books that reference NZASM South-Western Line Railway Station Bakker, Karel A, Clarke, Nicholas J & Fisher, Roger C. 2014. Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens : A shared Dutch built heritage in South Africa. Pretoria: Visual Books. pg 127, 128 De Jong, RC, Van der Waal, GM & Heydenrych, DH. 1988. NZASM 100 : 1887-1899, the buildings, steam engines and structures of the Netherlands South African Railway Company. Pretoria: C. Van Rensburg Publications on behalf of the Human Sciences Research Council. pg 85, 202, 203, 205, 209, 210