Steam locos at Cape Town

[John Ashworth]

I visited the steam locos in Cape Town Station this morning. There's the Red Devil, a 25NC, a 15F and the 24 class that Spier was using - I didn't get the numbers but I expect others know them. They're all looking very sad.

Much to my delight I found fitter Robin Vice working on the 24 class - he did sterling work on FOTR's 15F 3117 almost a year ago. Robin showed me that virtually all the pipes on the footplate of the 24 have been cut off - fortunately the fittings are still there.

The 24 is due to run again under Ian Pretorius' banner, I believe.

[Dylan Knott]

class 24 #3655 owned by Cape Western Vintage Railway
Class 15F #2916 Oil burner TFHP.
Class 25NC #3422 Oil burner TFHP.
Class 26 #3450 TFHP.

15F,25NC,26 in storage.

At Epping you would have found

15F 3153, 15A 1970, 16D 860 and 16DA 879 all owned by TFHP and in storage.
6J 641 and 0-4-0ST also there.

Dylan

[John Ashworth]

See photos at http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... =142&t=757