Stewart Currie wrote:The Members of the RSSA Reef Branch have been invited to a special showing on Wedensday 4 June at Reefsteamers at 7:30 PM
The show will take place in their new club house at their Germiston site. The details are as follows
Michael Whitehouse has kindly offered to give us a talk about "how they do things" over in the UK regarding the running of steam trains on the mainline. He will be presenting this to Transnet and he thought that it would be appropriate to also share it with us.
He is one of the key players in the Birmingham Railway Museum Trust and the Tyseley Locomotive Works who together with the operators Vintage Trains, operate mainline steam exursions all over the UK. They have built up a wealth of experience regarding mainline operations and his imput and presentation to Transnet may just give them a better understanding as to why we do what we do.
In addition to the Transnet presentation will be a slide show. Steam photography is another of Michael's passions and he would like to show us slides from his vast collection. The subject will probably be 1973 steam in Mocambique, Angola, Zim and some form SA.
For those who do not know how to get there I attach a map and if you want further help you can contact me on 082 654 0208 (civilised hours only please).
On 03 July (a Thursday) Tony has arrange that members can visit Gautrain
we have an opportunity to visit the gautain on thursday 3 july (no sat visits unfortunately). please see attached.
so i need urgently:
your name
your shoe size
by friday 30 may
no late comers will be excepted
and no short trousers
If you want to join in you must contact Tony Attwell no later than Friday 30 May on 083 629 8732
On Saturday 31 May the Green GMAM Garratt will be heading the Magaliesburg train
It will leave Magaliesburg arround 3:00 PM if you want to follow it up the hill
Your friend in Steam
Stewart Currie
