Andrew Geddes Bain and Thomas Charles John Bain - Meiringspoort and the Swartberg Pass
reference (encyclopaedic) · consulted 2026-07-31
- Type
- reference (encyclopaedic)
- Repository
- web (Swartberg Circle Route; SA Country Life; Wikipedia: Swartberg Pass)
- Consulted
- 2026-07-31
The citation as it was given
MEIRINGSPOORT built 1854-1858 - 16 km, 223 working days, crossing the Groot River 21 times - by Andrew Geddes Bain, Stretch's road-building partner of 1829-32. Its NORTHERN MOUTH IS KLAARSTROOM, the anchor this project adopted on 31 Jul 2026. THE SWARTBERG PASS was commissioned to A.G. Bain's son THOMAS BAIN in 1879; construction began FROM THE PRINCE ALBERT SIDE in 1881, stalled when the contractor went insolvent, was taken over by Bain himself in Nov 1883, and opened 10 January 1888 - the last of his seventeen Cape passes. Thomas Bain is already in this model as SRC-034 for his 1891 report on gold near Prince Albert, which is the subject of STO-0002. TERTIARY. [TO VERIFY]
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.