Thursday 1 July 2010

Sightings and S.M. news



Hi all.

We got TFR 18 522 & blue E 18 xxx on a Northbound load of containers near Eersteling, friendly hoot from the crew. Quite a few well-wagons in the consist. Next near Grasslands we got another Northbound train, this time a load of ore behind blue E 18 200, TFR E 18 xxx and blue E 18 xxx. We found Spoorbaan guys all along the line busy with maintenance on the rails between Leeudoringstad and Christiana.

One of our connections at TFR in Kroonstad told us they had a meeting on Thursday to discuss the specials for the SWC. They had a list of trains that filled up an A4 sheet of paper. ALL the specials were cancelled except for four...

Later we phoned another friend at Shosholoza Meyl. He told us they were running several hours late on the Komati due to signals. He also mentioned that 3/4 of the specials were cancelled due to no passengers.

Special greetings.
J & J.

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