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Simply earlier than departure, the whistle begins….
You’re climbing up a small ladder into the coaches, guided by the volunteers you’re proven the place to take a seat.
You’re taking your seat, ready for all others to board and also you soak up your surrounds.
The picket panels,
the previous mechanisms to open home windows,
the flooring stained by years of toes falling,
the trace of coal smoke within the air,
after which it begins.
You possibly can really feel the joy increase because the prepare begins rolling, constructing its tempo.
You look out the window and see autos stopped alongside the street, folks waving at you and you are feeling nearly shy however you can not assist however really feel immense pleasure as you wave again and get wrapped up within the expertise.
You chug alongside pondering you don’t need this to finish.
The journey itself is simply the correct amount of time earlier than you cease at Inchanga. We had two little ones with us, the bean and my little niece RM (a threenager) and for these touring with children… you recognize… irrespective of how thrilling the expertise, if it’s too lengthy, you’re not going to be having fun with the expertise for for much longer. On path to Inchanga Station, you undergo the tunnel at Drummond which was inbuilt 1878 and is professed to be the oldest tunnel nonetheless in use in South Africa in the present day.
* THE OLDEST TUNNEL *
We had been taking images and movies and sadly missed an opportunity to seize the tunnel on movie this time however, we had been now ready and knew that we needed to go again by way of the Drummond tunnel on our method again. Maintain them peeled for our YouTube channel.
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