An extra-long long-distance trip on the Shosholoza Meyl

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An extra-long long-distance trip on the Shosholoza Meyl

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An insider’s view: An extra-long long-distance trip on the Shosholoza Meyl
It is no surprise that the Shosholoza Meyl long-distance train service has been stopped in its tracks amid safety and other concerns. A recent trip from Joburg to Cape Town that should have taken 26 hours ended up being a stop-start 35-hour trip, while at the same time revealing some of the decay within the services operated by the Passenger Rail Agency of SA...
Not written by a railway journalist. He posts a photo of a pair of 18E locomotives and describes them as "diesels"!
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