Peter Ball

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A Brief History of Roads in South Africa - In the Beginning
A New Era Dawns - The first fifteen years of the South African Railways (SAR)
A Short History of Steel
A short history of the metrication movement in South Africa
A Short Masterclass on Boundary Walls
A South African Prequel to Downton Abbey
Before there were roads - The journey from Port Elizabeth to Kuruman
Benguela - More than just a current
Blood Sweat and Beers - The Story of the Railway Navvy
Bridge of Wars - The Story of the Bailey Bridge
Brunel's Big Idea and the South African Connection
Cape Gauge - From Ox-wagon to Iron Horse
Chunnel Vision - A long held dream
Corrugated Irony - A Short History of the Tin Roof
Crack Trains of South Africa - Then and Now
Dr. Beeching, Hero or Villain?
Electrification of Railways - Battle of the Systems
From Drawing Boards to Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Hard Rock Mining in South Africa - The Cornish Connection
How 'Meccano' inspired generations of engineers
Interlude on the Narrow Gauge
Johannesburg Underground - A Lost Opportunity
Limit State Design of Buildings and the Preservation Engineer
London Buses were Red except when they were Green
Meet Lady Anne Barnard
Mining Headgears - Pure Functionality Ruling over Beauty
Montagu Pass - The Final Link
Mr. Bellman’s Hangar
No other building materials have advanced the built environment as much as steel and concrete
Our Huguenot Heritage
Pilgrim's Rust - Tracing the Tramway
Race to the Rand
Raid, Rhodes, Railways, Rinderpest, Rebellion and Ruin
Railway Modelling, a hobby that lasts a lifetime
Railways at War
Railways from War's End to Union (1902-1910)
Railways in the Rainbow Nation, thoughts on SONA 2019
Rapid Rail Revamp in South Africa
Red Beret, Red Cross, Red Star - The remarkable story of Lippy Kessel
Roaming the Western Cape Rails
Separated by a Common Language
South Africa needs a Fred Dibnah
South African Railways – the years of transition from steam
Spanish Train and Other Stories - Some thoughts on the AFRO 4000 Saga
STEEL, When Iron Came of Age
Streaks of Rust Across the Veld - The Demise of the Branch Lines
The Big Fiery Giant - The Story of the Beyer-Garratt Locomotive
The British Hit Parade Before the Beatles
The Cape to Cairo Railway Dream
The Eccentric Engineer
The Eiffel Tower - Denounced, Accepted, Revered
The elevator gives the skyscraper a lift
The English Language in South Africa
The Gold Rushes of the Victorian Era
The Great Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The King James Bible - Thanks a Billion
The Mainline Railway Termini of London
The Original High Speed Rail - The Great Western Main Line between London & Bristol
The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe - Something to chew on
The Power of Rust
The Pyrites Panic - When one in three citizens left Johannesburg
The Railway Link to Namibia
The Railway that put the World on Track
The rise of railway preservation in Britain
The Scheffel Bogie and the Rail Gauge
The South African who gave the world the deep level underground railway
The Story of the Douglas DC-3
The Tanzania - Zambia Railway
The Tay Bridge Disaster
The War of 1812 - A needless war perhaps?
Travelling along our National Roads
Was there life before Metrication?
What was the Crystal Palace?
When did globalisation really get started?
When the Lions Roared in 1974
Where have all the mine dumps gone?
Where, when, what or who was Hardy Cross?
Why are there two codes of rugby?
Why do South Africans drive on the left?
Winston’s War – The Valiant Years
You say football I say soccer