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On the shunt in Hanoi, Vietnam. Click on the photo
January 2, 1995. It was my last day in Hanoi. We had returned to the city from a five-day scooter ride in the country. We had been lost, cold, battered by the “Chinese wind”, rained on and starved of gas and food, and Vietnam had, occasionally, felt mean and less enchanting, as it would from under a soaked poncho and freezing mud in our boots. We had tickets for tonight’s train, the Reunification Express to Saigon. But first I had to wash the mud off my scooter and inhale whatever last memories I could of Hanoi. 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…
South Africa has priced itself out of reach of British tourists and is no longer a budget destination, says this story in The Telegraph.
The paper said the number of British travellers to SA had slumped after the World Cup, dropping by as much 20-30 percent, according to some tour operators. 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 issued a vigorous response to a statement from the Passenger Rail Agency of SA which claimed that Transnet was falling short on its obligations to the passenger train operator. Read More…
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa gave Transnet a full broadside this morning in a statement in which it accuses Transnet of, among other things, failing ro carry out maintenance work on its locomotives and coaches as agreed in the contract between them. Read More…
So, the country’s long-distance passenger trains have ground to a halt, leaving an estimated 250 000 passengers stranded. Oh how the bus companies and taxi operators must be laughing. Read More…
Ever wanted to go to Mozambique? Timeslive Travel has ten good reasons why you should.
PHOTO: Granite mountains rear hundreds of feet above the earth near Ribaue, northern Mozambique.
This is where I am today, travelling by train up the Langkloof to the Boerewors Festival in the little Eastern Cape town of Kareedouw. Read More…
Mark Smith is the rail travel guru, doing for passenger trains what the world’s rail companies seem unable to do for themselves: make them desirable to ride.
His website, The Man In Seat 61, has been around for some years during which time it has become the world’s greatest source of rail travel information, starting with routes and timetables, pictures of the sleeping car accommodations (obvious, you’d think, but it’s shocking how few travel sites get little things like this right), and itineraries for travelling in just about any country you’d care to mention. Read More…
