The Union Limited and Union Express begin running to the mail ships

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1. Story
2. South African Railways introduces the luxury boat trains between the Witwatersrand and Cape Town, timed to connect with the mail steamers to Britain. The service exists because of a shipping schedule; the scenery is incidental. Blue steel carriages follow in 1937 and air-conditioned Metro-Cammell stock in 1939, and passengers begin calling it the blue train long before anybody renames it.
3. Knowledge
4. The Blue Train
5. Track gauge as a colonial decision
6. The Union Limited and Union Express begin running to the mail ships
7. Connections
8. The Blue Train
9. Track gauge as a colonial decision
10. Track gauge as a colonial decision
11. Rovos Rail
12. The Union Limited and Union Express begin running to the mail ships
13. The Blue Train name is adopted
14. The Blue Train
15. Rovos Rail
16. The Ghan
17. The Union Limited and Union Express begin running to the mail ships
18. The Ghan begins running on the Central Australia Railway
19. The last narrow-gauge Ghan leaves Marree
20. Rovos Rail runs its first train
21. Evidence
22. 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.