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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…
A great chunk of South Africa’s rail heritage has been obliterated as scrap thieves plunder a collection of steam locomotives at an open-air museum near Krugersdorp. 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…
A friend of mine in the banana trade has recently made the long trek to northern Mozambique. In Nampula, the capital of the Norte, he and a colleague stumbled across something that made my day. 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…
The Times Explorer got a rocket from a trainspotter and watched youths hunting field mice. You see the most amazing things in this country, if you travel slowly enough to look.
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PHOTO: The driver of Number 4074, peers from the locomotive cab at Donnybrook on Sunday May 30, 2010. PHOTO: Kevin Sutherland
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…
