1926 in South Africa

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13 – The first commercial air route from South Africa is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.

10 – The South African National War Memorial next to Delville Wood outside Longueval, France is opened.
10 – The Sabie Game Reserve is renamed to Kruger National Park.

18 January – Transvaal – Villiers, Free State to Grootvlei, 19 miles 39 chains (31.4 kilometres).^[1]
7 June – Free State – Harrismith to Warden, 35 miles 33 chains (57.0 kilometres).^[1]
18 August – Cape – Upington to Kakamas (Narrow gauge), 54 miles 63 chains (88.2 kilometres).^[1]
1 September – Cape – Addo to Sunland, 6 miles 1 chain (9.7 kilometres).^[1]
15 September – Natal – Mtubatuba to Candover, 110 miles 70 chains (178.4 kilometres).^[1]
19 November – Cape – Katberg to Seymour (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 30 chains (15.1 kilometres).^[1]
22 November – Transvaal – Citrus to Plaston, 17 miles 48 chains (28.3 kilometres).^[1]
8 December – Cape – Klawer to Landplaas, 50 miles 37 chains (81.2 kilometres).^[1]

Three Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

The first twenty-three Class 15CA 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.^[2]^[3]
Four Class FD 2-6-2+2-6-2 Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotives.^[2]^[3]
To address a shortage of suitable shunting locomotives, the first of twenty-one ex Natal Government Railways Class D1 4-8-2 tank locomotives are rebuilt to Class 17 4-8-0 tank-and-tender locomotives.^[2]^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13
^ ^a ^b ^c Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 26–27, 61–62, 68, 97. ISBN 0869772112.
^ ^a ^b Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 46, 49–51. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
^ South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2'0" & 3'6" Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended

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