Vooruitsig
Vooruitsig is a railway station in Pixley Ka Seme, Gert Sibande District Municipality, Mpumalanga and has an elevation of 1,686 metres. Vooruitsig is situated nearby to the town Volksrust.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Volksrust and Charlestown.
Volksrust
Town
Volksrust is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa near the KwaZulu-Natal provincial border, some 240 km southeast of Johannesburg, 53 km north of Newcastle and 80 km southeast of Standerton. Volksrust is situated 6 km southeast of Vooruitsig.
Charlestown
Village
Charlestown is a small town situated at the top of Laing's Nek pass in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between Newcastle and Volksrust. It started out as an important railway station and customs post between Natal and Transvaal in 1891 until the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910, and customs tariffs were abolished. Charlestown is situated 10 km south of Vooruitsig.
Vooruitsig
- Type: Railway station
- Category: transportation
- Location: Pixley Ka Seme, Gert Sibande District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.32846° or 27° 19′ 43″ southLongitude
29.84164° or 29° 50′ 30″ eastElevation
1,686 metres (5,531 feet)Inception
1958Open location code
5G4FMRCR+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1449230828OpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
942833
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