Friends of Atlantic Rail formed

[Luca Lategan]

Hi All,

This past Sunday was the watershed moment when the newest steam club in the whole Republic was officially formed, Friends of the Atlantic Rail!

Please find some pics attached :)

All members present at first meeting:

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The first FoAR board: fLtR: Dylan Knott, Brett Radloff, Ian Pretorius (not a FoAR member, but representing Atlantic Rail) and Michael MacIntyre

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[Chris Janisch]

Well done. May you go from strength to strength!

[Brett Radloff]

Thanks for posting, Luca!

[John Ashworth]

Brett, I see you've posted a few times today and I think these are your first posts to the FOTR forum. Welcome, and we look forward to hearing a lot more from you and from FoAR!

[Kevin Wilson-Smith]

Congratulations! And may I wish you all the very best - peaceful, trouble free fun and operation! And of course a very long long life!

[Stefan Andrzejewski]

Kevin that depends on Transnet and PRASA.

[Steve Appleton]

And a good, solid income stream. Heritage railways are not cheap to operate and in the current economic and regulatory climate are becoming ever more expensive. The only viable solution we at FOTR have found: bums on seats -- and lots of them! Trains that are as long as you can make them with as many pax on board as possible, and run as frequently as the market will bear.

Oh, and the use of as much volunteer, free labour as you can get your hands on.

[Stefan Andrzejewski]

I am sure that we will be tapping on your expertise from time to time if you don't mind. You have a very successful operation running up there