Old Johannesburg new blog post up

Check out the next installment of my old Johannesburg suburb by suburb research on Jeppestown & Belgravia

Of interest are these pictures I found in the Africana Museum Archives showing tram lines running under the train lines (when they were still on street level). Grand Central Hotel, also famously known as Norman’s Grill, is in the background. Today, the tram lines are gone and the train lines run underground.

Trams eventually went out of commission in March 1961. I recall the overhead electric tram lines in Clarendon Place Hillbrow still being up in the late 1980s.

Check out my post on the history of trams here

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