RHODESIA: TWO OLD STEAM LOCOMOTIVES MAKE NOSTALGIC FINAL JOURNEY CARRYING PASSENGERS IN EDWARDIAN COSTUME.

Record ID: 574532

  • Title: RHODESIA: TWO OLD STEAM LOCOMOTIVES MAKE NOSTALGIC FINAL JOURNEY CARRYING PASSENGERS IN EDWARDIAN COSTUME.
  • Date: 1st November 1972
  • Summary: 1. SV Train with name-plate Mazoe Valley Special with driver & wife posing for cameras 0.08 2. SV Passenger in Edwardian costumes on platform (2 shots) 0.27 3. GV Three passengers in costume boarding train 0.37 4. SV Other passengers ditto 0.42 5. SV Passenger in Wild West costume 0.48 6. SV Man & woman at train window 0.53 7. SV Stationmaster rings handbell for passengers to board 1.00 8. GV Train leaves & passengers wave (2 shots) 1.46 9. SV PAN FROM Welcome sign t Jumbo to local Africans waiting Africans waiting arrival of train 1.54 10. GV Steamtrain past through Jumbo people waving in F/G 2.19 Initials SGM/1641 SGM/1807 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th November 1972 12:00
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  • Location: Salisbury, Rhodesia
  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Reuters ID: LVAAD01RFYG3CQXOACKZPA7Q1J5M
  • Story Text: All over the world steam locomotives are being phased out; and in Rhodesia two unique engines have made their final Journey. The locomotives were built in Glasgow and railwaymen say they were the strongest for their size ever built. They've been services for fifty years and each has travelled the equivalent of eighty times round the world along the equator. On Sunday the two engines pulled a train, carrying four hundred passengers in Edwardian dress, on a final nostalgic trip from Salisbury to Glendale and back via the goldmining settlement of Jumbo. They're being replaced by diesel electric locomotives.
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