Humewood Road railway station is a railway station located in Humewood, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
A separate station to the main Port Elizabeth railway station, built in 1899, it is the southern terminus of the narrow gauge Avontuur Railway, which at 285 kilometres (177 mi) is the longest 2 ft gauge railway in the world. The Humewood Road-Humansdorp section of the Avontuur Railway was opened in November 1905.[1]
^Report of the general manager of railways. Cape of Good Hope. Dept. of railways. 1910. pp. lxxi. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
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in the median of Allen Road. Nearby landmarks include the York–Eglinton BIA, Little Jamaica, and the Oakwood-Vaughan and Humewood-Cedarvale neighbourhoods...
south (Corso Italia and Bracondale Hill), and Winona Drive to the east (Humewood–Cedarvale). Oakwood–Vaughan was part of the former City of York before...
Mimico Avenue connecting Royal York Road and Lake Shore Boulevard West. Some areas of industrial use exist along the railway corridor. In early 2012, Toronto...
Railway and the Northern Railway of Canada joined in the building of the first Union Station in downtown. The advent of the railway dramatically increased...
the last remaining railway line in the Port Lands, which made a U-shape loop around the area. The line branched from the Union Station Rail Corridor just...
and rail stations quickly became focal points for the creation of new towns and neighbourhoods. The most important was the Grand Trunk Railway line running...
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November and Aliwal North to Lady Grey on 2 November. Cape Midland – HumewoodRoad to Humansdorp on 1 November. Cape Western – Hutchinson to Pampoenpoort...
collection. The Harbourfront area to the south was formerly an industrial and railway lands area. Since the 1970s, it has seen extensive redevelopment, including...
west by the Humber River from south of Baby Point Crescent to St. Marks Road, east to Jane Street and Jane Street south to Raymond Avenue and Raymond...
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