Hi All,
On a cold morning we saw the pickup leaving
Welkom station yard with a load of grain trucks on the
way back to Kroonstad.
Again at Welkom station yard two TFR Blue 35's
& one of RRL's own 35 locomotives were standing
next to each other.
Then it was on to Bloemhof again.
We noticed that the points had been set up for the
yard and the de-railer was off the shunt neck.
Here we found E 10 140 & E 10 043 (as on Monday)
Shunting at the silos, again this was a lengthy task,
pushing and pulling the FZ's up and down.
We decided to make ourselves some lekker
Railway stew under the roof of the old PWI inspector's
office. While this was simmering away, we heard the
points move and set back to the main line. Soon the
signals were green Southbound. A short while later
3x orange 6E1's headed through at a tremendous speed
with a load of beer trucks and containers.
We enjoyed our stew and watched the shunting movements.
Soon the load was ready and the 2x 10E's headed North.
After that all the signals remained red.
We headed to Makwassie and noticed green signals
just before Kingswood, here the line starts moving
away form the road and by the time we reached Makwassie
all the lights were red again, so we missed a Southbound train.
The branch to Ottosdal and Vermaas seems to have had a train
over it as the line is full of flattened weeds. Makwassie station
had not been destroyed more since our last visit. A couple of months
ago we noticed that all the old railway houses across the station
were occupied, today we saw they have all been demolished ????
Wonder if the station is going to be next...
Also noticed that some of the roofing has been loosened,
so not to long now and Makwassie is no more.
Next stop was at Leeudoringstad, the same story here, all red
and no trains.
On to Bothaville, Schuttesdraai, here we found the FZ's
from the head-on collision still standing there bunched together.
Back to Welkom via Allanridge, Odendaalsrus and Friedesheim -
no further trains were seen.
Greetings.
John & Jacque.
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