Leeudoringstad (L 10)

Name: Leeudoringstad

Leeudoringstad was named after a particular type of thorn bush that once grew in abundance near the farm Rietkuil, on which the village was founded in 1920
and was laid out adjacent to the railway station.

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In 1932 a train loaded with dynamite exploded On 17 July 1932 the railway town of Leeudoringstad literally exploded into the headlines. A train carrying 1200 tons of dynamite blew up 2 kilometres from Leeudoringstad. The train was on its way from the De Beers factory in Somerset West, near Cape Town, to the Witwatersrand gold fields. Unfortunately the guard and four people living close to the railway line were killed and almost every building in the town was either damaged or destroyed. Information and photos of the disaster are displayed in the museum.

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