Grasmere (F 10)

Name: Grasmere

The Lawley-Grasmere Rail Corridor is located in the southern parts of the City of Johannesburg, and is to alarge degree isolated from the rest of the City. The areas surrounding the corridor are characterised by pooreconomic development, poverty and unemployment. In response to this the City of Johannesburg hasintroduced numerous development initiatives and strategies with specific emphasis on encouragingeconomic development and improving service delivery in the marginalised areas.

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Finally, these boxes pass to the transport department where they are quickly loaded into the transport lorries for conveyance to the railway.

What is the nearest station to the packing shed?

Grasmere. It is just five miles away from the Homestead on quite a good road as far as country roads go. It is situated on the loop line which runs out from Johannesburg via Langlaagte, Nancefield and Lawley. But we are only a mile and a half from the excellent main road that runs between Johannesburg and Vereeniging, and just 18 miles from the "Golden City", so that you will see that we are very conveniently situated. From Grasmere our fruit is sent by rail to all parts of the Union and Rhodesia, and even travels as far as India.

What do you do with your "culled" fruit?

That has become a very important branch of our apple business. Fruit which is unsuitable for marketing purposes, either from bruises or insect marks, etc, is carefully examined and graded into two classes. One lot is sent to the Cider Factory, while the other goes to our piggeries.

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