. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . l good stores in additionto a milling business. Tourists wishing to visit Mont aux Sources from theOrange Free State side of the Drakensberg alight at this station. Rydal Mountis within driving distance, and from this hostel excursions to the Berg may becomfortably made. Passengers alight here for Kestell Village and WitziesHoek. Passing through Chivelston Halt the train quickly approaches KestellRoad. Looking to the left the tourist will discern a hill upon which amonument has been erected : this is Tweefontein the scene of one of
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . l good stores in additionto a milling business. Tourists wishing to visit Mont aux Sources from theOrange Free State side of the Drakensberg alight at this station. Rydal Mountis within driving distance, and from this hostel excursions to the Berg may becomfortably made. Passengers alight here for Kestell Village and WitziesHoek. Passing through Chivelston Halt the train quickly approaches KestellRoad. Looking to the left the tourist will discern a hill upon which amonument has been erected : this is Tweefontein the scene of one of themany stirring incidents during the late War. Kestell Road is a small tradingstation with several well-appointed stores. TIGER RIVER is the next station. Large quantities of grain for export are r put on rail at this depot. Resuming our journey through Distance - • 294 miles. flat and somewhat uninteresting country the halts ofSherbrooke and Annandale are left behind and our train pulls up at Bethlehem,the junction for Bloemfontein-Modderpoort Line, 235. r All 11Distance 5334 Peel;iir> miles. BETHLEHEM whose importance as a railway junction has been greatly ^ increased of recent years by the const ruction of railway extensions, among which may be mentioneri theModderpoort, which links up Durban and Bloemfontein. the extension toKroonstad and the Grootvlei Line, which will form a junction with the MaLine at Standerton it has a population of 1,500 whites, many good storehotels, and an abundant water supply. It is also the centre of a large grainand dairying district. Leaving Bethlehem, on the left-hand side a clump of trees marks thesite of the neatly-kept cemetery which contains the graves of many who fellin the late War. MEETS, the next halt, is the summit of this line. A few miles distant aref Altitude 5614feet. ^ the halts of Valsch River and Kaallaagte, both of which —Dlstance 322 miles. | places are slowly coming into prominence as trading centres. After leaving Ka
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