Rovos Rail runs its first train

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1. Story
2. Rohan Vos's new private operator leaves Pretoria with one locomotive, seven carriages and four paying passengers, on a route into the eastern Transvaal. The company will build a business on colonial-era Cape-gauge alignments across southern and eastern Africa, including the long run to Dar es Salaam — routes laid for ore, administration and settlement, sold as itineraries.
3. Knowledge
4. Rovos Rail
5. Track gauge as a colonial decision
6. Rovos Rail runs its first train
7. Connections
8. Rovos Rail
9. Track gauge as a colonial decision
10. The Blue Train
11. Track gauge as a colonial decision
12. Rovos Rail runs its first train
13. The Blue Train
14. Rovos Rail
15. The Ghan
16. The Union Limited and Union Express begin running to the mail ships
17. The Ghan begins running on the Central Australia Railway
18. The last narrow-gauge Ghan leaves Marree
19. Rovos Rail runs its first train
20. Evidence
21. Supports the Cape Colony's 1873 adoption of the 1,067 mm gauge over both 1,435 mm standard and a proposed 762 mm narrow gauge, and Chief Railway Engineer W. G. Brounger's argument that lower construction cost would be repaid in higher operating cost. V55 verification basis: substance carried in attributed search results; the article was not fetched and no Cape Government Railways record was consulted.