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From: "Don & Stina Baker" <>
Subject: Re: PICKERING RAILWAY
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 19:31:48 +0200


E.Pickering was the Contractor appointed in 1859 to build the first railway
in the Cape Colony, from Cape Town to Wellington. Jose Burman's book "Early
Railways at the Cape" gives a few pages of detail on the subject.
Don Baker
Natal

-----Original Message-----
From: James D. Thomas <>
To: <>
Date: 05 June 1999 05:58
Subject: Re: PICKERING RAILWAY

>The Pickering Railway sounds like the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Part
of
>this, from Grosmont to Pickering, is preserved as a tourist / heritage line
>
>James
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: B & A Lehmkuhl <>
>To: <>
>Date: 04 June 1999 18:38
>Subject: Re: PICKERING RAILWAY
>
>
>>At 05:22 PM 4/19/99 +1200, you wrote:
>>>Greetings to the list
>>>I am a new subscriber and would like any information about the Pickering
>>>Railway that immigrants from Hampshire worked on circa 1859.
>>>Is there any records of these immigrants?
>>>The name I am researching is Henry PECKHAM who would have been 28 years
>old
>>>in 1859.
>>>Thank you
>>>Colleen Peckham
>>>Auckland NZ
>>>
>>Hi there
>>Henry Peckham, age 28 years, occupation: excavator on Pickering Railway,
>>was from Hampshire, UK, arrived in South Africa onboard the M. Atheling I
>>in October 1859.
>>
>>I'm also looking for info about the Pickering Railway.
>>
>>Anne Lehmkuhl - South African genealogical researcher / publisher
>>Web site http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/
>>
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