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Outeniqua Transport Museum
Summary
The Outeniqua Transport Museum is a railway museum located in George, South Africa.
The Outeniqua Railway Museum is one of Transnet Heritage Foundation museums. Situated in the former PX-goods shed in George, the museum opened on 24 September 1998.
The museum collection consists of a 21 steam locomotives and 22 coaches among other vehicles.
Captain John Baxter was born in Natal, son of a Natal Government Railways/South African Railways station master whose last station was Sarnia on the old main line. From school Baxter went to the General Botha naval training ship in Simonstown and served in the South African Navy in World War II. After the war he joined Clan Line and was master of one of its ships when he took early retirement in 1967 and returned to South Africa with his English wife, June, and children Nigel and Debbie.
Baxter had a substantial British-prototype layout in his loft at Poole but he never lost his love of SAR trains and during the late fifties he began modelling SAR prototypes to S-scale on 16.5mm gauge, which gave exactly the correct scale-to-gauge ratio. His first SAR model was a long-tender 19D, followed by a 6th class. Then came a complete train of balcony stock with dining car and baggage van and a goods train with old-style wooden guards van with two separate passenger compartments at the rear. While John's modelling technique was as close to perfection as anyone could want, his signwriting left much to be desired. So when the guards van needed lettering he commissioned a competent member of the Poole Model Railway club to do the job. All Hugh (I've forgotten his surname) had to go on was a side-on photo of the Afrikaans side, so, not being proficient in Afrikaans, "Blankes" and "Nie blankes" became "Smoking" and "Non smoking" rather than the correct "Whites" and "Non-whites".
Having returned to South Africa, Baxter was soon signed up by SAR & H who appointed him master of a dredger in Durban Harbour.
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