Simons Town line closed

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Christopher King
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Re: Simons Town line closed

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Its great to see the line being reopened. Due to the long closure will there be a celebration with marching girls an massed band as they dis when it was first opened,? ( Perhaps not the marching girls then!)

Allen you must have got your feet we when taking those photos.
I also noted the the overhead is still in place, I thought it would be pulled to one side for the crane to work. Of Course, it is switched off! I presume the Glecairn Tie staion is still there.

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allanroy
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Re: Simons Town line closed

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Fire broke out at the area where all the equipment is kept for the reconstruction of the railway line.

When try and go and see tomorrow what was burning.

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Re: Simons Town line closed

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just a pile of rubbish burning and also a few old wooden railway sleepers
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Christopher King
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Re: Simons Town line closed

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Has the line ever reopened?
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Yes it did reopen on the 21 Feb 2011
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Re: Simons Town line closed

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Thanks Alan, I missed it when I was ill. Do you happen to know whether there is a feeder substantiation in at Glencairn Now? Fish hoek was a tie station and False bay was the ;last actual substation in my day. It was talked about in 1959 when the sliding door stock was introduced as it consumed more power per train than the old ones The Electrical engineer objection was there was no supply line to glencairn. The railways did not want to buy power from Cape Town City council then.
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