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Bethesda Road station is situated at the beginning of the of the climb on the Lootsberg Pass. No water was available for steam locomotives, but it did have fire cleaning & turning facilities. The station being a Detector Locked Station, equipped with a single arm Home Signal either end of the station, There was only 4 stations in South Africa with this same set up, the others beings Avoca & Inchanga Stations in Natal, Strand also being one of them, but with only a Home signal one end, as it was a terminal station.