Some nostalgia

[Doc Vernon]

Just a wee bit of nostalgia on the old Cape Town Station,that may interest some who had been there in the good old days!

I so well remember this old Station with the Ticki Hoc Bar,the good and bad times,the train trips from there both for local leisure and also in my working days on the SAR&H as Waiter on the old Bullet Train,with her Double Header Garrett Engines pulling us at crazy speeds those days through the long and dreary Karoo!
Here i am having a good old puff before getting on with the reload of Stores etc!Then off to pick up the passengers and on to Johannesburg full steam ahead!

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An example of the Double Header from Oudtshoorn to George via Montghue Pass!

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Also remembering the days at Xmas when we were still so young and my late Dad and Mum,together with our Uncle Cecil and Aunt Madge and all us Kids at the Station on Xmas Eve,with the Station lit up in such wonderful colours of various lights,Streamers and that famous Model Engine working overtime with so many puting in their pennies to get it going!
The Shop windows inside the Sation then too were full of lovely presents and lit up,i later got a present that i had wanted,a Bow and Arrow set! haha! I has seen it in one of the windows before Xmas at the Shop in the Station!
Oh yes what great memories!
I wont go into the bad side with the Pub abd all the troubles i got into ! Phew!! Some very close calls though!
Cheers

a Rare image of the model locomotive underneath the clock in the old railway station.......jpg

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