These clips are just fantastic Simon. As I was a fireman in Kimberley the clips of De Aar line and especially Kimberley to Bloem mean so much to me. Even seeing some of the locos I worked on is just great. I can see me spending loads of time just watching your clips. Thanks for posting
Thank you Richard, I enjoyed the filming. There is much more on later videos on my channel right up to the end of daily steam in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Enjoy them. I also enjoyed many footplate rides out of Kimberley but never did any filming from there as I had no permit.
A lovely variety of lines and especially the mixed freight. Baggage cars and a passenger car - inspirational for modelling. Thank you so much for sharing this bit of history.
Absolutely awesome footage, especially of the 25NC's double heading with mixed freight. As a Dutch Australian I was living in South Africa in 1984 but I had no idea about this spectacular steam train work going on because steam was pretty well all gone in Australia by that time. And having been a passenger on a Rovos Rail trip out of Cape Town I am familiar with the scenery around De Aar etc. You certainly have captured the essence of hard working steam locomotives in their hey day. It must have been truly amazing to have been there to film it. Thank you for your work. I hope there's more.
This is the best footage of SA steam I have ever seen and all all your truley footage is amazing. I was wondering if you have any footage of the narrow gauge stuff like the Alfred County Railway and other 2ft lines narrow gauge is my main obsession!
Thank you. There are sequences of Port Shepstone to Harding in various of my videos. The record triple header is shown in 1991 vol 1 from 31 minutes, original SAR footage in 1985 to 1988 vol 3 from 30 minutes plus various videos in between. I visited Alfred County Railway many times.
@@simonleppardchinasteamvide7563 Oh great thank you also I ma going to be making some videos about SA Locos here on RU-vid not on this channel but on another one would it be ok if I used some of your fottage I will giuve you full credit of course.
I had the privilege of being on the footplate many times on this line and token changes took place at up to 80km per hour. I never saw one missed. A long walk for the fireman if missed!
All the SAR steam in general use late 70s on were superheated including the 12As. The 12As referred to earlier were in industrial use as in Witbank colliery and these were saturated/non superheated for ease of boiler maintenance.
