Hi all.
Yesterday we got the Northbound car train near Whites behind 2x SAR maroon 6E's, leading was E 1616. Near Virginia we got a Southbound pick-up behind orange and maroon 6E's.
Our first sighting for today was RRL.
At Gunhill we got orange 34 028 shunting a load of yellow jet fuel tankers and a staff van. The yard was quite full of traffic.
The old watering column at Hennenman is still standing as is the now disused triangle. At the silos we got blue 30 037 shunting mielie trucks.
Then we headed to the Winburg Theunissen branch. A trek of about 1 km through the veld brought us to Deelspruit, 31 km from Theunissen. Just a very rusted nameboard remains (rails on nameboard CGR 1890) and overgrown track. It is quite sad to stand there with the cool autumn wind blowing trough the trees and knowing that the chances of a train on this line again is non-existent...
All along this branch the farmers have closed the line with fences. This line will most probably never be uplifted, as the cost of recovering such light track and not being able to use it anywhere else would not be justified.
Meyershalt's nameboard is just rusty brown - no name remains. Same as Deelspruit track wise. The rails date from 1891 and the nameboard's are from 1880 all CGR.
The bridges / culverts on this line are made of Sand stone.
Last sighting for the day was again the North bound car train near Theron behind 2x orange 6E's
Greetings.
J & J.
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