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Airlie, a Railway Station near Waterval Onder

Railway station between Sycamore and Hemlock, on the route from Pretoria to Maputo, some 16 km east of Waterval Onder. At first called Nooitgedaght, it was renamed Airlie, after a British officer, the Earl of Airlie, who was killed in the Battle of Diamond Hill during the Second Anglo-Boer War, on 11 June 1900.

References

New Dictionary of South African Place Names by Peter E. .

Further Reading
https://web.facebook.com/pg/WaysideLodgeZa/about/ http://www.mpumalanga.com/blog/towns-of-the-highlands-meander https://www.afristay.com/p/36728