We traveled by trin from Cape Town to Praetoria. Our trin was pulled by a Condenser 25 from De Aar to Kimberly in the karoo. Smooth ride, almost no smoke from the loco.
Ah, this takes me back to winter 1991, the Trans-Limpopo Steam Safari, taking in the northern and eastern parts of South Africa and into Zimbabwe and across the Victoria Falls bridge to Livingston, Zambia. It was truly memorable.
People are walking in the streets, cbd nogal. Scared to find out what happened to all these loco's. Side note, didn't know we had so many loco's and various classes.
That is a garratt. These were designed to cross bridges without adding too much weight on a small area of the bridge. These locomotives were also more popular on steep-gradient branch-lines because they are longer and can handle slightly steeper gradients more easily.
They were designed by William Garratt who worked for Bayer Peacock in England. Designed to be able to do the work of 2 locomotives as well as having the ability to negotiate very tight curves due to it's double articulation. The very first loco was K1 built to service the mines in the rugged west of Tasmania. K1 had been preserved for many years but has now been fully restored back to operation and serves on one of Britain's preserved tourist railways. There were some 1700 Garratt type locos built with about 1100 going to South Africa.
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We traveled by trin from Cape Town to Praetoria. Our trin was pulled by a Condenser 25 from De Aar to Kimberly in the karoo. Smooth ride, almost no smoke from the loco.
Lovely video of the days when South Africa was a lovely clean beautiful safe Country to live and work in
Hi good morning this was the worlds best an safest railway ever love this video
Amazing train video
Ah, this takes me back to winter 1991, the Trans-Limpopo Steam Safari, taking in the northern and eastern parts of South Africa and into Zimbabwe and across the Victoria Falls bridge to Livingston, Zambia. It was truly memorable.
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Steam is king. Political comments is really not needed and really Tanisha a good video
Super video!
Thank you for an enjoyable video
Hope the storyTeller can come back now and. Witness a run down country on its knees ,thanks to black majority rule.
Thanks very much for a great steam video.!
awesome
For the longest time, I had no idea that SAR's rail gauge was narrow.
It isnt
@@sgt.diesel3198 it’s 3ft 6in (1.067m) Narrow is anything less than 4ft 8.5in (1.435m)
@@sgt.diesel3198nope it's 3 1/2 feet which is less the the 4 feet 8 1/2 inches used in Europe and North America
Am a retired railwayman. Started as a cleaner in the Paarden Eiland Loco Shed in 1958.. Would like to get a copy of this video. Is it for sale??
Does anyone know what the issues behind the class 25's condenser tender was?
I have a question, how many steam locomotives are preserved in South Africa?
Nope many less than 15 still runnig i would say, mabye 300 in presavation but that is a guess
People are walking in the streets, cbd nogal.
Scared to find out what happened to all these loco's. Side note, didn't know we had so many loco's and various classes.
Loads where sent to the UK and Australia some where sold to coal mines and the rest were sadly scrapped
So sad
At 11:15 what kind of locomotive is that, never saw one like that before.
Garatt. They were designed to evenly spread weight across a certain route or area like a bridge.
That is a garratt. These were designed to cross bridges without adding too much weight on a small area of the bridge. These locomotives were also more popular on steep-gradient branch-lines because they are longer and can handle slightly steeper gradients more easily.
They were designed by William Garratt who worked for Bayer Peacock in England. Designed to be able to do the work of 2 locomotives as well as having the ability to negotiate very tight curves due to it's double articulation. The very first loco was K1 built to service the mines in the rugged west of Tasmania. K1 had been preserved for many years but has now been fully restored back to operation and serves on one of Britain's preserved tourist railways. There were some 1700 Garratt type locos built with about 1100 going to South Africa.
This is not 891mm is it?
Are all SA rail tracks narrow gage or is some standard gage.
Entire mainline is narrow, branches are narrow, and the apple-express route was 640 or 670mm.
This is basically Our ''standard gauge''. There are in fact an even narrower gauge line on which the Apple Express ran at maximum 50 km/h.
3 feet 6 inches
Brian Fairey SA railways are generally 'Cape gauge' or 3'6". They call call it the worlds largest narrow gauge railway.....