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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 sit down.
You’re taking your seat, ready for all others to board and also you soak up your surrounds.
The wood 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, individuals waving at you and you are feeling nearly shy however you can’t 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 quantity 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 youngsters… you understand… regardless 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 in-built 1878 and is professed to be the oldest tunnel nonetheless in use in South Africa immediately.
* 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 cross again by the Drummond tunnel on our manner again. Preserve them peeled for our YouTube channel.
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