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 :)
Friends of Atlantic Rail formed
- Luca Lategan
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Friends of Atlantic Rail formed
Luca Lategan...
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Re: Friends of Atlantic Rail formed
Well done. May you go from strength to strength!
- Brett Radloff
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Thanks for posting, Luca!
- John Ashworth
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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!
Re: Friends of Atlantic Rail formed
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
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Kevin that depends on Transnet and PRASA.
- Steve Appleton
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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.
Oh, and the use of as much volunteer, free labour as you can get your hands on.
Last edited by Steve Appleton on 13 Sep 2010, 17:57, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: added last para
Reason: added last para
"To train or not to train, that is the question"
- Stefan Andrzejewski
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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