Cape & Rand Railway Company

Cape & Rand Railway Company (Cape & Rand) is a fictional steamship line of the Passage network, period-plausible, with 2 steamers on 1 routes.

Passage computes it for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: pick two places and a date, and print the ticket the purser's clerk would have written.

Historical model

Modelled on the South African Railways' Union Limited of 1923 between Cape Town and Johannesburg, the mail train the ships connected with, renamed the Blue Train after the war.

Home port

Cape Town

Fares in

pounds sterling

Tickets in

English

Routes

• Cape Town – Kimberley – Johannesburg · South African mail trains · Weekly

Fleet

• Rand Mail · 30 knots · from 1919-01, still in commission in 1939
• Rand Mail · 30 knots · from 1923-11, still in commission in 1939

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