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A sprawling Free State farm returned to the steam age last week.
Garratts slumber in the smoky Sandstone engine shed
Twenty-two restored steam locomotives were fired-up and spent the week hauling trains on the 26km-long narrow gauge railway that picks its way through the maize fields and under the sandstone buttresses on Sandstone Estates near Ficksburg. Read More…
A fitter arrives for the day's work at the loco shed in Wolsztyn, Poland
Just back from Poland. Got sweaty, dirty and a bit overheated. Read More…
The famous Apple Express tourist train may grind to a permanent halt at the end of the holiday season. The train, which runs on a part of the world’s longest narrow-gauge railway, was supposed to enjoy a certain amount of financial support from the Eastern Cape government. Read More…
The fleet of “preserved” steam locomotives that were hit by scrap thieves at an open-air museum near Krugersdorp have all been cut up for scrap. Read More…
It’s no surprise that the city of Mossel Bay is unhappy about Transnet’s decision to pull the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe tourist train off the rails. After all, 115 000 passengers a year means a lot of tourist spending in the town as well. Read More…
Transnet has finally pulled the plug on the struggling Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe tourist train, bringing the curtain down on the country’s last scheduled – when it ran – steam-hauled passenger train. Read More…
This was the scene yesterday after a steam-hauled tourist train carrying 627 people derailed near Cullinan after thieves removed some 40 wooden sleepers during the night. Read More…
If you’ve ever wanted to own your own steam locomotives – and the railway to run them on – your time has come. Read More…
Trying to make rail tourism really work in this country is not a job any sane person would want, surely? Certainly not when years of begging letters, meetings, deputations and entreaties are reduced to nothing but dust when an irreplaceable piece of rail history and once-viable tourism asset is turned into scrap? Read More…
Take a look at these two photos. The first shows the railway dining car “Protea” on a fast express back in the day when dining cars were the centrepiece of South Africa’s crack passenger trains.
The second shows her as she is today, lying stripped, vandalised and dumped on a siding in Cape Town where Transnet’s “heritage” operation keeps its historic – and previously valuable – coaches. Read More…
