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Post date: 15/01/2015
The railway links between Cape Town and the interior as well as smaller railway lines were crucial for the British as they provided transport from the harbour to the interior that carried soldiers, food and other goods. Disruption of the railway line by the Boer forces during the guerrilla warfare period from 1900 was ongoing and deliberate with the Boer commandos blowing up railway lines, derailing trains, and taking supplies from the trains meant for the British forces. Between December 1900 and September 1901 135 train wrecking incidents were recorded.13 Due to the expanding activities of the Boer commandos in the Cape more British troops had to be detailed to guard the Cape railways and from July 1901 onwards blockhouses and redoubts were built, eventually all the way down to Wellington in the Western Cape. Lord Kitchener was also forced to divert increasing numbers of troops from the occupied Boer Republics to aid the colonial
detachments in dealing with the Boer commandos.14