SA Industrial Steam video, Tavistock Collieries 1990

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SA Industrial Steam video, Tavistock Collieries 1990

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Recently posted on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcj6Uf2f5hs
Recorded whilst on a ten day tour in 1990 to mop up some of the final South African industrial steam workings. Most of the exchange siding yard scenes were taken adjacent to Tavistock Colliery and it's their ex SAR 'S' class 0-8-0 we see working the short spur to and from the mine. The loco itself was on hire from Witbank based Dunn's Locomotive Works. Also putting in appearances are a pair of 15CB locos from another nearby colliery (Transvaal Navigation?) who've worked in over another altogether longer branch on which we also see them working.
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