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WINBURG
Union to Republic
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 ORC removed 16.11.1910
(Visser)		    
2   2C "O.F.S"
Blocks on sides ??.03.1911
(Aab)		 27.03.1915
(Aab)		  
3   2C "O.F.S"   27.01.1913
(Aab)		 08.06.1917
(Aab)		  
4   2C "O.F.S"
Visser		 26 mm 1924
(Visser)		 08.11.1927
(Visser)		  
5   2C "O.F.S" 26 mm 07.09.1936
(Visser)		 07.08.1937
(Aab)		  
6   2C "O.F.S./O.V.S"
Visser		 26 mm 13.05.1941
(Visser)		    
7   2C "O.V.S./O.F.S"   26.10.1938
(Visser)		 03.05.1961
(Visser)		  
8   PARCEL  
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

WINDFIELD
24.05.1926 to Union
Area: Frankfort OFS
1   2C "Blank"   25.01.1934
(Aab)		    

WINDMILL
Union to Republic
Area: Paarl
1   1C "CGH" Last seen:
05.02.1900
(Frescura)		 Union 03.08.1937  

WINDSORTON
Union to Republic
1   2C "Bars+cross" First seen:
25.03.1903
(Aab)		 Union 17.03.1921  
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm 18.06.1923
(Putzel)		 03.11.1928
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"   30 mm 26.05.1947
(Aab)		 04.10.1954
(Putzel)		  
       

WINDSORTON ROAD (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Kimberley
1   1C "CGH" Larger typeface

First seen:
 15.02.1902
(Aab)		 Union 06.11.1913  
2   2C "Dot" 30 mm 27.04.1933
(Aab)		 1947
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser
 		 Skeleton
(Visser)		    

WINKELDRIFT
Union to 01.08.1910
Transfered to Rietpoort
Area: Kroonstad
NOT  RECORDED

WINKELPOS(T)
Union to Republic
Area: Kroonstad
1   2C "S.AFRICA"     18.04.1919
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"     23.07.1954
(Putzel)		    

WINKLESPRUIT
Union to Republic
Area: Umkomaas
1   2C "NATAL"   ??.08.1929
(Putzel)		 25.01.1933
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
(Putzel)		    

WINSTEAD
01.08.1911 to 03.09.1945
Area: Prieska
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		  
(Putzel)		 19.05.1943
(Visser)		  

WINTERBERG
Union to 01.12.1930
Area: Balfour Cape
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
05.12.1903
(Visser)		 Union 06.05.1920
(Frescura)		  

WINTERHOEK
01.01.1914 to 09.10.1950
Area: Graaff-Reinet
1   2C "Bars + cross"   On GV

SOUTH
above date
AFRIKA
below date
(Putzel)		    

WINTERKAMP
28.12.1937 to 09.02.1942
Area: Middelburg Transvaal
NOT  RECORDED

WINTERMATTEN
03.10.1927 to 04.08.1930
Renamed from Tobia
Area: Maclear
NOT  RECORDED

WINTERNEST
30.10.1950 to Union (Closed 1964)
Area:Pretoria
NOT  RECORDED

WINTERSKLOOF RAIL
1914 to Union
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "NATAL"   1914
(Visser)		 1936
(Visser)		  
2 /STA 2C "Blank"   08.07.1953
(Aab)		 1953
(Visser)		  

WINTERSRUSH (RAIL)
Union to 04.10.1921
24.03.1924 to 14.12.1925
Area: Barkly West
1   2C "Bars + cross"   08.03.1911
(Aab)		 20.05.19193
(Visser)		  

WINTERTON (RAIL)
 Union to Republic
Area: Northern Natal
1   2C "NATAL" First seen:
28.12.1907
(Aab)		 Union 02.05.1919
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"   26 mm 192?
(Putzel)		 .1927
(Visser)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		   12.02.1929
(Visser)		    
4   2C "NATAL"     03.11.1936
(Aab)		    
       
5   2C "Blank"   194?
(Aab)		    

WINTERVELD
02.05.1955 to Union
Area: Pretoria
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

WINTON
01.10.1913 to 07.10.1957
Area: Kuruman
1   2C "S.AFRICA"   15.09.1933
(Aab)		 01.07.1942
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1934
(Putzel)		    

WIRSING
Union to Republic
Area: Vryburg
1   2C "Bars + cross"   GV
(Putzel)		    

WITBANK
Union to Republic
 
1   2C "TVL" First seen
26.12.1904
(Aab)		 Union 31.08.1922
(Aab) 		  
2   2C "TRANSVAAL"   01.04.1912
(Aab)		 22.02.1915
(Aab)		  
3   2C-D "TRANSVAAL"     19.03.1913
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Blank"
Visser		   29.04.1914
(Visser)		    
5   2C-D "Blank" Transvaal removed 13.07.1917
(Aab)		 13.12.1918
(Putzel)		  
6   2C-D "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRIKA
below date		 14.11.1914
(Aab)		 22.06.1922
(Aab)		  
7   2C-D "Bars + cross"     15.11.1928
(Putzel)		    
8   2C-D "Cross"     01.04.1953
(Putzel)		    
9   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
Thinner bars		 12.05.1937
(Aab)		 1942
(Putzel)		  
10   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
Thicker bars
(Putzel)		 7
(Aab)		  
11   2C "Bars + cross"   29 mm
Thick bars		 12.06.1929
(Putzel)		    
12   2C-D "Bars + cross"   29 mm
Thick bars
(Putzel)		    
13   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 195?
(Putzel)		    
14   2C-D "Bars + cross" 29 mm
Short bars		 20.05.1937
(Putzel)		 02.03.1936
(Aab)		  
15   2C-D "Bars + cross"
Thin bars		 27.03.1941
(Aab)		 04.06.1945
(Visser)		  
16   2C-D "Bars + cross"  
Thin bars		 27.03.1941
(Aab)		    
17   2C-D "Bars + cross" 31 mm
Short bars		 1954
(Putzel)		 23.02.1954
(Aab)		  
18   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm
Long thin lines		 02.10.1954
(Putzel)		    
19 "SUID AFRIKA" 2C "BETAAL"
Visser		   22.09.1956
(Visser)		    
20 "PARCEL" 2C "WITBANK"
Visser		   1924
(Visser)		    

WITBANK LOCATION
08.06.1942 to Union (closed 1963)
Area: Witbank
1   2C "Blank"     16.11.1950
(Putzel)		    

WITBOOI
26.08.1910 to 15.09.1952
Area: Belfast
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   26.08.1910
(Aab) 		192?
(Aab) 		 
       

WITDYK
25.01.1937 to 07.05.1951
Area: Brakpan
1   2C "Bars + cross"   01.02.1937
(Aab)
(Putzel) 		 

WITELSBOS
1952 to Union
Renamed from Witte-Els-Bosch
Area: Humansdorp
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

WITFIELD
01.03.1937 to Union
Area: Boksburg
1   2C "Blank"   13.08.1943
(Aab)
(Putzel) 		 

WITFONTEIN
01.09.1913 to Union
 (Closed 1963)
Area: Klerksdorp
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"    
(Putzel) 		   

WITKLEIGAT
22.02.1926 to Union
Renamed from Ruitjesvlakte
Area: Zeerust
NOT  RECORDED

WITKOLK
01.08.1920 to 13.06.1921
Area: Carnarvon
NOT  RECORDED

WITKOP
Union to 08.07.1955
Area: Burghersdorp
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
13.05.1907
(Frescura)		 Union 08.05.1925
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"   08.07.1955
(Visser)		    

WITKOPJES
Union to 1918
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"
Visser		   23.10.1913
(Visser)		    

WITLAAGTE
01.05.1917 to 26.08.1929
Area: Winburg
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		   1922
(Visser)		    

WITMOS(S) STATION
Union to Republic
Area: Cradock
1   1C "STATION" First seen:
14.01.1886
(Frescura)		 Union 21.03.1913
(Frescura)		  
2 "STATION" 2C "Bars + cross"   14.12.1918
(Aab)		 28.06.1932
(Putzel)		  
3 "STATION" 2C "STASIE/STATION"   23.01.1956
(Visser)		 08.06.1957
(Aab)		  

WITNEK
01.08.1919 to Union
Area: Cullinan
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Chris vd Spuy		   1952
(vd Spuy)
(Putzel)		  

WITPAN
06.12.1920 to 14.08.1922
Area: Strydenburg
NOT  RECORDED

WITPOORT
Union to 17.08.1959
Area: Middelburg Transvaal
1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
02.06.1904
(Aab)		 Union 02.11.1936
(Aab)		  
       

WITPOORTJIE STATION
Union to 12.06.1939
Area: West Rand
NOT  RECORDED

WITPUT (RAIL) (STATION)
27.06.1927 to Republic
Area: Kimberley
1 RAIL 2C "Blank"   09.07.1928
(Aab)		 06.08.1937
(Aab)		  
2 /STA 2C "Blank"
Visser		   12.01.1956
(Visser)		    

WITRAND
05.09.1921 to 06.11.1922
Area: Kroonstad
NOT  RECORDED

WITRANDSFONTEIN
01.01.1918 to Republic
Area: Potchefstroom
1   2C "Bar"     05.06.1943
(Putzel)		    

WIT RIVER
01.02.1911 to 01.10.1911
Area: Piet Retief
                 

WITRIVIER
01.06.1953 to Republic
1   2C "Blank"   01.04.1957
(Aab)		 Republic  

WITROOSBOOM
28.04.1941 to 1945 ?
Renamed from Fonteinriet
Area: Petrus Steyn
NOT  RECORDED

WITSAND
01.06.1953 to Republic
Renamed from White Sands
Area: Heidelberg Cape
1   2C "Bars + cross"   Last seen
17.03.1978
(Putzel)
(Putzel)		 Republic  

WITSIESHOEK  (WITZIESHOEK)
Union to Republic
Area: Harrismith
1   2C "Blank" ORC removed 03.05.1916
(Aab		 10.06.1924
(Aab		  
2   2C "O.R.C"     1924
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"   W level with date
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Blank" W above date 194?
(Aab)		 1953
(Putzel)		  

WITSKEI
02.10.1922 to 11.02.1924
Area: Johannesburg
NOT  RECORDED