Construction of the terminal buildings finished in 1966, and the airport was named after Ben Schoeman, the minister of transport at the time.
Of the Class 16B locomotives, number 805 has some claim to fame, since long time South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman started his Railway career at Braamfontein as a stoker on this locomotive during the 1930s.
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