Within a few years of this photograph being taken, this highly scenic railway was closed. In Steam Days the daily pickup train to Bethesda Road Station looked like this. Scan from a 35mm slide.

Class 24s were not the usual motive power during steam days. The class would have been very suitable for this lightly laid and long branch line with its 8 reverses. The waters of the Kraai (Crow... (more)

Fauresmith is the only town in South Africa where the railway runs down the middle of the main street. Regular steam had ended some years before this picture was taken, but the cars, coincidental... (more)

No 3635 pilots Class 19D No 2698 across a bridge that was built in 1906. In 2001 this line was closed, but with the discovery of new coal deposites in the area there are plans to re-open the line... (more)