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Kubas Station Building
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Classification  | A.11.2.4. (Complexes of) Buildings, Public, Railway Buildings
Proclamation No  | 093/1983
Place  | Usakos, Farm Kubas
Region  | Erongo
Site Environment  | Farm
Previous Use  | Station.
Refences  | Official Gazette 4786, No. AG 111, 1983. Vogt, Andreas, "National Monuments in Namibia", Windhoek 2004, p.164-165.
Legal Status  | Declared as National Monument on 15.06.1983 by the National Monuments Council of South Africa (NMC, National Monuments Act 1969, No. 28).
     

Description

Outer walls, 3.5m high, from white marble piled on each other. Inner walls from cement bricks. Floor from wood and cement. Ceiling with wooden planks. Wooden veranda. Five rooms: office, two for the stationmaster's accomodation, assistant's room, kitchen.

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Brief History

The "Kaiserliche Eisenbahnverwaltung" supplied the building with marble from a reef that the railway line was built through in 1900, only 3.5 km north-east of Kubas. The station was one of 24 on the State Railway line.
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