Rovos Rail's last run on the Garden Route

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Eugene Armer
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Rovos Rail's last run on the Garden Route

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Rovos Rail has withdrawn their Cape Town - George - Cape Town route. The last run was supposed to be on the weekend of 5/6/7 March, but due to the cancellation of this train, the previous trip on 5/6/7 February was actually the last one. I teamed up with Peter Rogers to do some photting of the return from George (not knowing that it would be the last run) and we got this shot about a half hour after sunrise, the two 35's climbing from Buffelsjagrivier where the train had staged overnight.

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Eugene
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Andreas Umnus
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Re: Rovos Rail's last run on the Garden Route

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I wish I had seen the train on the line when I was there.
Nice picture.
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Morne Bothma
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Re: Rovos Rail's last run on the Garden Route

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Is there any particular reason why Rovos withdrawn from running this route, maybe not profitable enough?
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