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South African Railway News: October 2013
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South African Railway News. Friday, 25 October 2013. Firstly some not so good news, Transnet has lost the fuel supply contract to Bothaville and Viljoenskroon. Less trains on our branches. The reason given by the fuel guys was unreliability. At Hennenman two of the new "Bright star" diesels were attempting to shunt the silos, they failed and were staged at Hennenman. At Hamilton we found the remains of this coaling stage - Les told us more. I have purposely copied this reply to Charlie - he worked on the...
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South African Railway News: November 2012
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South African Railway News. Tuesday, 13 November 2012. Bothaville, train staged - crews time up. Virginia, heading towards Kroonstad and the ballast siding. Just North of Theunissen, if you look closely the Winburg branch can be seen above the units. Erfdeel, Wesselbron pick-up returning to Kroonstad. Hennenman, Friedeheim and Bothaville pick-up combined into one train - heading towards Whites. Saturday, 10 November 2012. Welkom station, RRL "Hercules", arrived from Kimberley. Makwassie - Part 2. Subscri...
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South African Railway News: Sightings
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South African Railway News. Thursday, 6 February 2014. Not much, haven't been out line side much lately. RRL's loco from Mozambique at Friedesheim with a load of empty hoppers for Frieddies 5 shaft. The old 31 class at the exchange yards at Welkom show grounds, waiting for one of Harmony's locos to pick up the load and bring empties. A couple of shots of the uplifted Glen Harmony branch. Again at Friedesheim, this time Transnet with the Mondi timber shunt. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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South African Railway News: October 2012
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South African Railway News. Thursday, 18 October 2012. Welkom station RRL 1205 - Part 2. Have a look what arrived over the weekend, apparently here for only a short while to perform some tests on her. Will keep you updated. Welkom station RRL 1205 - Part I. Have a look what arrived over the weekend, apparently here for only a short while to perform some tests on her. Will keep you updated. Erfdeel, Wesselsbron pick-up heading back to Kroonstad. Friday, 5 October 2012. 34 906 shunting at Friedesheim.
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South African Railway News: May 2013
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South African Railway News. Thursday, 23 May 2013. The Wesselsbron pick-up returned light loco near Erfdeel, hoots from the crew. E 1542 was shunting the mielie traffic at Bloemhof silos. A while later E 1613 and E 1352 came through heading towards Klerksdorp. We were told that there is an occupation near Britten and another near Warrenton due to ballast tamping. The Weigh Bridge Test Wagons are standing at Leeudoringstad. The load was containers. Near Leeubos the Blue sped past, only to be held up at a ...
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South African Railway News: February 2013
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South African Railway News. Tuesday, 26 February 2013. First train of the day was at Virginia, the Northbound car train. At first we thought this train was very late but it turned out the running times have been changed, hoots from the crew. Later we got 34 067 between Welkom and Mothusi on the return working of the Bothaville pick-up. The Blue came past about "right time" with plenty of hoots from the crew. At least we got the load that was held back for the Blue Train heading through Makwasssie. While ...
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South African Railway News: June 2013
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South African Railway News. Thursday, 6 June 2013. RRL's Hercules was caught at the Friedesheim exchange yard with a load of empty hoppers from 5 shaft and again near the shaft itself. The Queensland diesels have left Welkom. At Bloemhof a North bound load of ore wagons speeded through behind 4x blue 10E's. Later another load of ore wagons headed South behind 5x 18E's. The Blue Train was heading South just after Makwassie. Sheltams 31 was on its way to the exchange yard with Harmony Surface Rail.
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South African Railway News: April 2013
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South African Railway News. Tuesday, 30 April 2013. Containers heading towards Kroonstad at Virginia. Mondi timber shunt and RRL at Friedesheim. Staged trains at Theunissen. A Northbound Lime train near Bloemhof, new concrete catenary masts at. Northbound ore near Leeudoringstad. Southbound mielies leaving Leeudoringstad. RRL Welkom - Part III. RRL Welkom - Part II. I spent Sunday afternoon with the RRL guys on the ore haulage to. Odendaalsrus at old Fredies 1 shaft. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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South African Railway News: July 2013
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South African Railway News. Wednesday, 31 July 2013. Three Class 18E on a ballast train passing through Escourt Station in April 2013. This is a test posting using the android mobile blogger app. Tuesday, 23 July 2013. RRL's 31 was running light towards Odendaalsrus to pick up a load of ore, here she is at Friedesheim. Sheltam's 31 heading towards 4 shaft, with empties. Again, RRL leaving Welkom station en-route to Friedesheim. Harmony Surface Rail at the exchange yard with Sheltam. During the week this ...
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South African Railway News: August 2013
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South African Railway News. Thursday, 15 August 2013. Lots of trains were missed and the photo opportunities were bad. RRL are hiring a 35 class from TFR in Kroonstad again. Their 31 needs some repairs to the compressor. I have heard that one of their own 35's is coming this way soon. Also that a "bigger" Queensland diesel is being sent this way for testing? Will see soon enough. Harmony Surface Rail near the diesel depot. The hired 35 at Welkom station and the Hercules taking fuel. Image 3172 - Introduc...
