With coal discovered 8 km away from
Dundee, an efficient way was needed to transport coal to factories other than by ox wagon. The
railway from
Durban to
Johannesburg reached this point on 4 September 1889. A new village sprung up where a branch line was built from the Durban-Johannesburg line to the
eastern Transvaal in 1903. The village was renamed Glencoe, after a mountain valley in
Lochaber,
Scotland, it became a town in 1934. ==Trivia==