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Afternoon All,

To celebrate 50 years of preservation, the Bluebell held a special Gala over last weekend. I went along on the Saturday, exactly 50 years to the day since public passenger services commenced.

The first selection of pictures is now on my Fotopic site and here's the link for anyone ...

Thanks. Its actually 15A 1970 not 12A 1970.

Alec Watson?

Thanks for correcting me on that; we are hoping to move house shortly and all my railway books are already packed away in boxes. I am therefore without my usual works of reference (and suffering from severe withdrawal symptoms!)

But you ...

As is usual, a wonderful collection from you Ron, I wonder though when you took those photographs back in 1972, did you ever dream that not only would so many South African locomotives return to the UK to museums in the future, but that you would be able to photograph NGG 16s on regular service ...

As an experiment, here's a picture of 12A No.1970 'Milly' at De Aar in 1972.

She was the shedmaster's pet engine and he made sure that she was always kept spick and span. Unfortunately, I have forgotten his name; can anybody remind me?

http://images.fotopic.net/13ct8w.jpg

Clicking on the ...

I have just added a further selection of pictures from 1972 to my Fotopic site. These are at Uitenhage, Sydenham and De Aar. Here's the link :

http://ronfisher.fotopic.net/c1099919.html

This is the 'Stop Press!' collection where all new pictures go to start off with. In due course I shall move ...

Afternoon All,

If anyone is interested to have a look, there are lots of pictures of the ex SAR Garratts on the Welsh Highland on my Fotopic site. Here are the links :

http://ronfisher2.fotopic.net/c1062786.html

http://ronfisher2.fotopic.net/c1386259.html

http://ronfisher2.fotopic.net/c1709957 ...

Derek Walker wrote:I love some of those pics, will never see the likes of them again.

You can say that again!

Ron.

Glad that they are of interest. I'll let you know when the next batch are available for viewing.

Ron.

Hello.

I visited South Africa on a three week trip in 1972 and, although I wanted to go back, I was never able to do so. However, I still have all the pictures that I took during that once-in-a-lifetime holiday and many of these are now available for all to see thanks to the wonder that is the ...