MALUTI MAGIC PRESS COVERAGE - OLD GLORY

[John Ashworth]

Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Subject: MALUTI MAGIC PRESS COVERAGE - OLD GLORY

Ladies and Gents,

The first of the press publicity for Maluti Magic is starting to appear.

Here is a write-up from Old Glory.

Yours,

Wilfred E. Mole
Sandstone Heritage Trust

Tel: +27 11 805 4692 or +27 805 6530
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[John Ashworth]

Interesting to see that Reefsteamers still operates locos "largely owned by South African Railways (Spoornet)" some years after Spoornet ceased to be!

There is a very telling comment by David Morgan from UK (Transport Trust/Heritage Railway Association/FEDECRAIL), who says, "'It was mentioned by more than one South African that trains were all too often seen as separating friends and families, whereas in Europe the general perception is that they unite people." This apartheid-era baggage is too often ignored by the South African heritage rail community in its not too successful attempts to interest the majority population in South Africa's railway heritage.