As n Terrein Meester in vandag se lewe op die Spoorweg, maak mense nog baie van die foute. Laas week voor my verlof begin het, het ek Taak Waarnemings met die mense gedoen en met hulle baklei oor hulle dieselfde foute maak. Ek gaan die video stoor om te gebruik wanner ek my Simposium klasse doen. Uitstekende video die.
Hierdie was die baie ou goeie dae voordat hulle alles verander het en na 1994 alles al hoe agter uit gaan het toe die ANC koministies politiek partye die land deur hulle gat getrek het en wat se dit vir 'n eerlike lands burgers wat hulle julle lewe op geover het om die land wat eers 'n land van melk en heun was net nou 'n krimineele bliksems land geword het deur die ANC wat bokkerol tussen daardie twee vlappe van hulle het nie.
An amazing video of a time when the fabulous SA Transport Services was the employer of the largest number of employees of any organisation in both in Africa and the entire Southern Hemisphere. The SA Railways serviced not only South Africa, but transported freight, passengers and millions of tons of export goods to most other countries in Africa. What a legendary organisation it was. But, South Africa has gone from the third most powerful economy on Earth to junk status in far less than 30 years. The big question is HOW??? What an earth-shattering mess we are in under an absolutely useless current regime!!!
It's interesting to know how hard people worked in the old days, to keep South African railway lines and trains in mint condition, now it's an eyesore, metro rail nearly collapsed, infrastructure falling apart, fraud and corruption destroying the the most important method of transport to Cary big quantities of humans and cargo
Wow this brings back great memories for me. I remember Sharl very well indeed. He was always asking for coal from us on the locos. As we approached the station I would pile up a load of coal onto the edge of the footplate. As we approached the signal box we would give a few blasts on the whistle just to let him know. As we passed I would push all the coal off the footplate and once we passed hevwould go and collect it from along the trackside. Great times indeed
Those were the days. Sadly a ew order has taken over. The railways can no longer be relied on, a d the Airways is all but gone. So why has this happened. Thank God I was bourne into this age depicted in the film. But it has all change now. Such a shame.
Very interesting to see people working on the railways . Unlike today where you never see any track maintenance, just rusted rails running newish locomotives and refurb wagons . The rails are so bad it cause so much noise and vibration inside passenger cars .
I caught hundreds of them mostly at full speed. And thankfully never missed one. I had a jar of vaseline in my lunch tin. Because at fullspeed with a passenger train it would leave a serious bruise on your inner arm.
I could add to that with a correction We had the best railway in the world Not only for looks but also for safety until it was utterly destroyed by you know whom So sad
Thank you so much for posting these videos. You have no idea how important it is to us in the SA rail enthusiast community to be able to access things like this, I am now a loyal subscriber and look forward to seeing anything else you post! Are these coming out of the Transnet archives, or from personal collections?
They are all personal with permission from old TV film productions. Its very rare to come across old footage of SAR, so whenever they come available, I shall try post.
Ohh my word the thrill ❤️❤️❤️. Makes sense why most of the old school railway employees are railfans. Today's employees are just workers and it ends there
A great nostalgic trip,being born,raised and eventually trained by the SAR&H i can attest to the quality of the people who worked there,i come from a long line of SAR&H people.
Did my appieship at Salt River in 1974/79. CE Rudman, FP Muir, WS Smith, LC Kok, C Strumpher, PD Joseph, Jaap Griesel, Jack ( ouballie ) Newton, list goes on. Salt of the earth Spoories.
@@elizabethlovett5130 Stop living in the past....you got one life and by the listening...yours is allmost over...Start living your life to the fullest !!!
