| In May 2008, I went to South Africa with Geoff's Trains. We started with 3 days of dawn to dusk photography at Sandstone, utilising 7 different locomotives.
A move to Ixopo followed, where we had a day on the Cape gauge line from Creighton (where the Mayor came out to welcome us) to Riverside and Donnybrook with a 19D class. Whilst at Ixopo we also had two days on the Paton's Country railway - first with an NGG11 and then with two sugar cane locos - where we were able to do real sugar cane cutting and loading. We also visited (purely on spec) the cellulose mills at Umkomaas in Natal which is the last industrial site in South Africa using steam locos. We were lucky enough to see a 19D bringing a load of timber into the plant from the transfer sidings. |
Dawn at Sandstone 2008-05-12 06:29:20 |
Dawn at Sandstone 2008-05-12 06:57:56 |
NGG16 at Sandstone 2008-05-12 07:07:02 |
2 Garratts 2008-05-12 07:10:54 |
2 Garratts 2008-05-12 07:18:12 |
2 Garratts 2008-05-12 07:26:06 |
2 Garratts 2008-05-12 07:30:02 |
2 Garratts 2008-05-12 07:43:56 |
2 Garratts 2008-05-12 09:46:56 |
Reflections 2008-05-12 10:09:16 |
Water Stop 2008-05-12 10:39:23 |
2 Garratts 2008-05-12 10:55:48 |
2 Garratts 2008-05-12 11:17:24 |
Kerr Stuart 2008-05-12 14:23:56 |
Kerr Stuart 2008-05-12 14:38:21 |
Locals 2008-05-12 16:43:48 |
Sunset 2008-05-12 17:16:37 |
Lawley at dawn 2008-05-13 06:52:47 |
Dawn 2008-05-13 06:55:42 |
Lawley 2008-05-13 07:51:38 |
Lawley 2008-05-13 08:20:37 |
Lawley 2008-05-13 08:36:09 |
Lawley 2008-05-13 08:45:16 |
Lawley 2008-05-13 10:52:39 |
Lawley 2008-05-13 11:12:22 |
Lawley reflections 2008-05-13 11:20:23 |
NG15 2008-05-13 14:20:58 |
NG15 2008-05-13 15:25:42 |
NG15 2008-05-13 16:02:16 |
NG15 2008-05-13 16:02:26 |
NG15 reflections 2008-05-13 16:32:48 |
NG15 reflections 2008-05-13 16:40:54 |
Feldbahn 2008-05-14 06:59:35 |
Peckett 2008-05-14 07:08:43 |
Feldbahn & Peckett 2008-05-14 07:58:50 |
Feldbahn 2008-05-14 08:39:03 |
Peckett 2008-05-14 08:51:25 |
Feldbahn & Peckett 2008-05-14 09:09:58 |
Feldbahn 2008-05-14 09:16:36 |
Cape Gauge 19D 2008-05-15 08:33:28 |
Cape Gauge 19D 2008-05-15 08:58:02 |
Cape Gauge 19D 2008-05-15 09:05:37 |
Cape Gauge 19D 2008-05-15 09:24:54 |
Cape Gauge 19D 2008-05-15 09:29:33 |
Cape gauge 19D 2008-05-15 09:47:10 |
Cape gauge 19D 2008-05-15 09:47:20 |
Cape Gauge 19D 2008-05-15 15:27:31 |
locals 2008-05-15 15:48:04 |
