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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: UMGENI STEAM RAILWAY   2 days, 12 hours ago

  http://www.umgenisteamrailway.co.za
  Steam excursion running days:
  Sunday, 29 Jan 2012: Kloof – Inchanga 08:30 & 12:30
  Sunday, 26 Feb 2012: Kloof – Inchanga 08:30 & 12:30
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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: EGYPT-SAUDI LANDBRIDGE SCHEME   2 days, 12 hours ago

  The study on a proposed landbridge project that would link Egypt with Saudi Arabia via a Red Sea bridge, has yet to begin, the Arabic Al Hayat daily reports. Chairman of the Saudi-Egyptian Business Council Abdullah Dahlan says Egypt is still undecided on the matter. He is quoted explaining: “The project has been delayed due [...]

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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: LESOTHO RAIL INITIATIVE   2 days, 12 hours ago

  Members of the Southern African Railway Association (Sara) represent each of the region’s railways. The government of Lesotho, which has no railway, is to send observers to all future meetings of the association, which has agreed to support the small landlocked country in its endeavour to build a rail system for itself. An existing Transnet [...]

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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: VALE SIGNS FOR LINE THROUGH MALAWI   2 days, 12 hours ago

  On 11 January, the government of Malawi signed a $US1 billion deal with Brazil’s Vale mining group covering the rehabilitation of lines in Malawi and the construction of a 100km new link from Blantyre to a point near Moatize in Mozambique. The work envisaged will target the moving of 18 million tons of coal [...]

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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: CLASS 38 ELECTRO-DIESEL IN OPERATION   2 days, 12 hours ago

  From RSSA Gauteng’s On Track:
  The first passenger haulage by the class 38 is believed to have been en route to Cape Town for three based there. After that they were used fairly frequently on trains to Magaliesburg and elsewhere. This was due to the vagaries of Spoornet’s accounting system. Electric was cheapest, then diesel and [...]

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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: TRANSNET FREIGHT RAIL CLASS 38 ELECTRO-DIESEL   2 days, 12 hours ago

  From RSSA Gauteng’s On Track:
  Between 1992 and 1994 Spoornet placed fifty class 38-000 locomotives in service. They are still the only dual-powered electro-diesel locomotives in use by Transnet Freight Rail, capable of running either on 3kV electricity off the catenary or on diesel alone.
  The class 38 was designed to replace steam on pickup work [...]

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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH-SPEED AMBITIONS   2 days, 12 hours ago

  It seems South Africa is serious about ambitions in the high-speed arena, though whether it understands “high speed” to mean Gautrain’s modest 160km/h or the genuine article (nearer 300km/h) as exemplified in countries like China, Japan, France and Spain is not exactly clear. Project no 1 concerns the Moloto Road north of Pretoria, on [...]

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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: BLUE TRAIN RAPTURE   2 days, 12 hours ago

  The following reached us from an undisclosed source in Australia. Endeavours to track down the original of the wording “The Blue Train has an aura of mystique about it … this moving five-star hotel on wheels has hosted countless presidents, celebrities, and royalty” were fruitless. It appears on countless websites, even one to do with [...]

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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: SANRASM UPDATE   1 week, 2 days ago

  From a report by Geoff Pethick on the South African National Railway and Steam Museum (Sanrasm):
  “Major efforts have been made with the dining car Shashi. The entire floor is suffering from wet rot and will be removed and replaced. About a third has been done already. This involves removing the tables, seats etc, a big [...]

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  Railways Africa wrote a new blog post: ANOTHER GAUTRAIN BUS STRIKE   1 week, 2 days ago

  Dismayed commuters who have been inconvenienced yet again by striking Gautrain bus drivers – the second time in three months and the fifth strike in a year – say the service is becoming unpredictable and unreliable and feel they are not getting their money’s worth. Providing the premium rail and connecting bus service has cost [...]