Interesting

The locomotive breaks the ceremonial ribbon at the opening of the Pretoria-Pietersburg railway line on May 1, 1899. See the roof trusses of the station building at the then Pietersburg. This whole building was later dismantled and re-assembled where it stands today, at the Louis Trichardt station.

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Date: 24 August 2007
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"Which is the oldest building in everyday use in Louis Trichardt?" Local historians are speculating about the answer to this question and invite the community to give their input.

Charles Leach, for one, would all but put his head on a block that the oldest building still being used is the railway station building.

"This beautiful old granite building was the very one that saw the arrival of the first steam engine from Pretoria to Pietersburg on May 1, 1899," said Charles. "The Pietersburg station was dismantled block-for-block and rebuilt in Louis Trichardt!"

At the Louis Trichardt station the red post box mounted in the granite wall bears the letters ER with a king’s crown in between and the Roman numerals VII below, indicating the British monarch - Edward Rex- or King Edward VII, the same man after whom Fort Edward was named. The roof trusses of the Louis Trichardt station bear a remarkable similarity to the trusses seen in a picture of the old Pietersburg station.