Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Here you are - a teaser for the experienced, the very experienced....!!
Or just guess!!
Firstly, this bridge is on a railway line that does still see trains from time to time. So does anyone have an idea where it is located - roughly. Province? The river it is crossing? Towns nearby?
Secondly how old is the bridge? It has a builders plaque on it that indicates the date it was constructed......
Or just guess!!
Firstly, this bridge is on a railway line that does still see trains from time to time. So does anyone have an idea where it is located - roughly. Province? The river it is crossing? Towns nearby?
Secondly how old is the bridge? It has a builders plaque on it that indicates the date it was constructed......
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Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Hmmm, looking at the green, and muddy water, must be either Natal or Eastern cape..
Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Hmmm...
I did not say this would be easy!
I did not say this would be easy!
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Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
If you hadn't posted it in the South African photo gallery I would have said Tsavo, Kenya. Oh, but it can't be, as there are no lions in the shot...
Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Interesting John!
It is in South Africa, but rather obliquely what you have said does provide a clue!
It is in South Africa, but rather obliquely what you have said does provide a clue!
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Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
It's in the Kruger Park. It's near that place where you go on holiday where there is a steam loco standing in an old station that is no longer connected to anything.
Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Nope - it does apparently see trains from time to time.................
Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
No further ideas from anyone?
Let me think up some subtle clues..............
Remember we want the Province, a nearby town (perhaps) and the rough age of the bridge - the date it was made........
It is out of the way slightly, so only a train enthusuast may have seen it, so not much more then the above is needed.....
Let me think up some subtle clues..............
Remember we want the Province, a nearby town (perhaps) and the rough age of the bridge - the date it was made........
It is out of the way slightly, so only a train enthusuast may have seen it, so not much more then the above is needed.....
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Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
I'm also curious where it might be.
I think I haven't been there during all my visits to South Africa.
So local people, I hope I can read soon the solution.
I think I haven't been there during all my visits to South Africa.
So local people, I hope I can read soon the solution.
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Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Why do the feeling arise that this is not in the RSA, it look in a sad state, perhaps in Maputo or Swaziland.
Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
It is in the RSA proper!
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Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
I have never seen this bridge, nor claim to know where it is located, but every time I look at the photo's, the riverbank in the background reminds me of a similar one on the road between Port Elizabeth and Addo Elephant Park. I seem to remember also that just before the southern entrance to the Park, one crosses a (rather neglected) railway line which crosses the river close by. The problem is that Google Earth shows that bridge and it's not similar to the one in your photo. It's just upstream from Colchester. This leaves me with only the memory of another line I've seen near Alice in the Eastern Cape. I have even once seen a train running on this line (about 5 years ago) and suspect that this line connects Grahamstown with King Williamstown? Judging from the background scenery (the riverbank and the "forest" in the one pic) I would easily be able to believe that this bridge is somewhere in the Eastern Cape.
This is not even a proper guess - simply an attempt to see how close I could get when the final answer is revealed!
Hansie
This is not even a proper guess - simply an attempt to see how close I could get when the final answer is revealed!
Hansie
Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Pretty cold Hansie!
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Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Perhaps Mpumalanga, on the line between Ermelo and Machadodorp, over the Olifants or Crocodile river. ??
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Re: Competition - where is the bridge located? Built when?
Hi Kevin,
Please put us out of our misery and tell us where the bridge is.
Please put us out of our misery and tell us where the bridge is.