Gautrain progress: September 2010
- John Ashworth
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Gautrain progress: September 2010
Photos and captions by Nathan Berelowitz, 26 September 2010
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- Approaching Pretoria station the Gautrain construction is rapidly progressing
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- The approach to Pretoria Station now under cover
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- Looking back under the new bridge at the approach to Pretoria.
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- Under the bridge approaching Pretoria, the yellow light of the signal calls the train on.
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- This very broad gauge diesel shunter and ballast hopper on the Gautrain line in Pretoria station
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- Andreas Umnus
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Re: Gautrain progress: September 2010
Thank you for giving us this interesting impressions.
You might think that the shunter is broad and you are right. But always when I saw the steam locos in South Africa when I was there, I
thought they are much bigger than our steam locos, even if you have only the 1067 mm guage and we have the 1435 mm gauge like the shunter in your picture.
You might think that the shunter is broad and you are right. But always when I saw the steam locos in South Africa when I was there, I
thought they are much bigger than our steam locos, even if you have only the 1067 mm guage and we have the 1435 mm gauge like the shunter in your picture.
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Re: Gautrain progress: September 2010
South African railways have a very broad loading gauge despite having a narrow track gauge. Ironically the broad gauge (ie standard gauge) Gautrain has a smaller loading gauge as it is basically a British train with new bogies (and a few extra traction motors), built to the very limited British loading gauge.
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Re: Gautrain progress: September 2010
That diesels are broad. Too broad to fit into the Gautrain tunnels..
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