day, martial law had been declared after thousands of miners had gathered at Market Square and where the gathering had been broken up by the army and police. Rioting then ensued. The cause of the unrest was the firing of miners at Kleinfontein Gold Mine and a sympathy strike had spread to sixty-three other mines. 1932 station By the late 1920s, the station passenger numbers had again outgrown its facilities. £650,000 was raised for a new concourse and eight platforms and four railway lines. The new facilities would need additional land which was only available to the north and was part of the Old Wanderers ground. There was opposition to the idea by the people of Johannesburg when a 100 ft strip of the Wanderers ground was proposed with the South African Railways offering £31,000 and the club wanting the amount doubled. The amount was settled on £35,000 and on 11 December 1928, a foundation stone was laid by the Minister of Railways, C.W. Malan. The architects were Gordon Leith and Partners who were associated with the architectural firm of Gerhard Moerdyk & Watson. The new station opened in 1932 with the concourse entrance on De Villiers Street facing Eloff Streets north end, the main shopping strip in the Johannesburg CBD. The frontage was decorated with Tuscan colonnades and the concourse had its interior walls decorated with twenty-eight painted panels by the artist Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef. In one restaurant there are blue and white hand painted tiles decorating the walls and pillars. The new station would retain its racial segregation with splendid facilities for whites and basic facilities for non-whites. The old steel and glass train station structure would be dismantled in 1954 and moved to Esselen Park in Kempton Park where it was re-erected as a South African Railways training centre. In 1995, it was again dismantled and re-erected in Newtown just over 500 metres west of the current station with the aim eventually to house a museum. 1965 station By 1945, Park Station had reached a capacity of 130,000 passengers a day and there was a need to expand the station's infrastructure with a new station, administrative buildings and a newer bridge over the railway lines and so the ideal land for the project was the Wanderers ground. Transport Minister F.C. Sturrock would attempt to sell the project to the public while it was countered by the Wanderers