South African Steam in 1972.

[45669]

Evening All,

I've put a further selection of pictures from my 1972 tour of South Africa in YouTube if anyone would like to have a look:

If anybody missed them, the earlier pictures are here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFsbViNeGSHkvf06mbJ4f-wyYL9dX-zwA

TTFN,

Ron.

 

[Cowley]

What a wonderful collection of photos. Thanks for posting this.
The depot shots just ooze character!

 

[45669]

We hadn't seen 'real' steam since the mid-1960s, so you can just imagine our delight!

 

[Cowley]

We hadn't seen 'real' steam since the mid-1960s, so you can just imagine our delight!

I’ve never seen it and it’s one of the few regrets in my life really. It must have been wonderful.

 

[45669]

I’ve never seen it and it’s one of the few regrets in my life really. It must have been wonderful.

That's pretty well all there was back in the 1950s when I first got interested in trainspotting, but we just took it for granted at the time.

 

[Spamcan81]

Thanks for this Ron. Didn't get to Natal until 2007 on a Dave Rodgers tour. Fabulous country for steam. Just a shame we only had four locos to play with.

 

[45669]

Thanks for this Ron. Didn't get to Natal until 2007 on a Dave Rodgers tour. Fabulous country for steam. Just a shame we only had four locos to play with.

There's a lot more still to come. All I need is time...

 

[45669]

Evening All,

I've just put another short album of photos from my 1972 tour of southern Africa on YouTube; it covers the delights of Mason's Mill shed in Pietermaritzburg, plus a footplate ride on a GMAM class 4-8-2 + 4-8-2 Beyer Garratt:

Previous pictures can be seen in this playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFsbViNeGSHkvf06mbJ4f-wyYL9dX-zwA

Hope they're of interest.

TTFN,

Ron.

 

[45669]

Morning All,

There's now a few more piccies from my 1972 South African tour on YouTube; this time it's narrow gauge, i.e. 2ft gauge, in Natal:

TTFN,

Ron.