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Date: 1875 Type: Railway Station Style: Victorian Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°46'13.16" S 25°23'56.65" E Alt: 54m

Old Uitenhage Railway Station dates back to the days of the Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage Railway Company Ltd, one of the Cape's early railway links. Work on the tracks was completed on 24 July 1875, and on 21 September of the same year, the line was officially opened by John X Merriman, the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Uitenhage Railway Station was built in the true tradition of a Victorian country station building, a "cottage orné" with Gothic trappings and frills of woodwork. No longer in use as a station, this delightful folly has been restored and adapted as a Transport Museum. (Picton-Seymour 1989: 102-103) Now the Old Railway Station Museum, visit the Museum website. Books and articles that reference Railway Station - Now Museum Fransen, Hans. 1978. Guide to the Museums of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Galvin & Sales (Pty) Ltd, for the Southern African Museums Association. pg 103 Gaylard, Shaun & McDougall, Brett . 2022. RSA 365 : 365 Drawings of South African Architecture. Johannesburg: Blank Ink Design. pg 52, 53 ill Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pg 102-103