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The Cemetery Between the Railway Lines. Langlaagte.
I remember this cemetery from my young days travelling by train through Langlaagte to Mayfair. It is situated between the main lines and a spur that goes into the depot next to Langlaagte Station. Maintenance here does not happen very often, the grass on my trip was almost as tall as I am, and trying to get a sense of the extent of the cemetery is almost impossible. There are about 90 graves, of which I could positively identify about 30. Most date from the early 1900's and there is one ABW casualty buried there. I returned there on 10 July 2011 hoping that a fire would have cleared some of the grass and it had; sadly though, many of the graves uncovered had no markers, and while I could easily make out 10 graves I could not ID any of them, although I was able to document at least 5 previously missed headstones.
The cemetery can be found at Google Earth co-ordinates -26.201210° 27.992552° or Download the KMZ File
© DR Walker 2010-2012. Created 25 January 2011. |
