Friends of the Rail Forum

Hi all,
Its been a while since my last post.
I've been rumaging through a pile of old steam safari itineraries I obtained from my ucle Org de Bruin, who was a real safari gricer in his day. I found this listing of the then Museum's steam locos - operational, preserved, plinthed, and earmarked for ...

Due To A Swindle Reports Of The Demise Of The Pretoria-Magaliesburg Railway Line Were Premature
Monday 24 January 2011
By Dolf Dreyer
RIP Pretoria-Magaliesburg Railway line 1925 – 2010. This nostalgic farewell to the Pretoria-Magaliesburg railway, which is reportedly being broken up, and with it ...

Correction - the photos were taken on Sat, Dec 4, 2010...

Yes they did it again.
About 263 steel sleepers where stolen from the Cullinan branch line. Here waymen are repairing the damage with concrete sleepers, on Sun, December 5.
Has the speed restriction been lifted?
Stupid people...

Rail aspirants anxious about state of branch-line assets, low volumes

By: Terence Creamer
Published: 27 Sep 10

Concern over the state of repair of South Africa's branch-line rail infrastructure, as well as the economic viability of the concession opportunities that will potentially be made ...

Why did this happen?

Thanks, this is really amazing!

What does the hacker gain from destroying a forum like this?

A moerse bomb has just burst about the Chamdor site. SANRASM has agreed to all locos being scrapped asap and given permission for all other locos at the main site? to be moved by Reefsteamers... Including the Eskom locos etc...
A meeting is to take place at Reefsteamers on Sat at 12:00 to draw up a ...

Ouch! I reread and saw that I misread...
However, I'm confident there already is enough red tape to cover the section to Meerhoff!
;-)

Thanks for the comments guys. It truly is a sad situation.
But, If it only costs about R1000 / km, I'm up for that! Km for km it can be done!
Can't we relay all the rails with red tape?

I would like to enquire what the current status is on the Pta - Magaliesburg line is...?
Did anybody apply for the consessioning of the line?
In my mind's eye I can envision a English-type Steam Railway being established, especially now that FOTR is establishing a future depot at Hermanstad. What ...

WOW!!!
So TFR actually acknowledges the value of steam clubs???
A small step for TFR, a giant leap for steam preservation!
:-D

Eish my dear friends. Albeit a bit late, I am shocked...

The Universe surely is not making our job easy...

:-(

Hi everyone,
I had a chuckle at this below report found on the website mentioned.

We have problems yes, but this is just rediculous!

I think this report was made during April/May 2010...?




http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/zim11.htm

Previously Mike Taylor reported on progress behind ...