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Due to the fact that we only have 5 trains per day Uitenhage to Port Elizabeth plus return. We have very very old stock with sliding doors and nobody tells the passengers what they must do, Up in Joburg and cape town if the trains are late they think nothing of setting them on fire that's why I...
If you pull the Stop button on our trains in the middle of summer (no A/c) you will find yourself flying out of the said door because the people on the train open them to cool off.
You cannot do away with First Class because what would the train manager (or whatever you want to call him/her) do to people in standard class who have reserved seats
which have been taken by somebody who will not move.
Here in South Africa its got so bad that the Black People now Kill their own people who they say did it, this is because the Police and the Courts are not doing their Job to their satisfaction.
My farther was born in wood street and I worked at English Steel 1957/1963 and there was still Steam engines working the route and I stood and watched them.
I live in South Africa and all policemen & women are armed so guess what the gangs do they get hold of some guns and them go and rob the police stations of all the rest of the their guns. It has happen a lot of times est 100 to 200 GUNS STOLEN.
I wonder when some of the towns and city's will tell the cov and network rail that ALL diesel engines will be banned to enter their area's under the clean air / health and safety acts as they will be trying to do this for all other transport.
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