Rovos Rail

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1. Story
2. A private South African train operator founded by Rohan Vos in 1989, running from its own restored station and workshops at Capital Park in Pretoria. Its first train ran on 29 April 1989 with one locomotive, seven carriages and four paying passengers. Where the Blue Train is the surviving state boat train, Rovos is a purpose-built commercial reconstruction: it acquired and rebuilt withdrawn stock and then invented itineraries, including Pretoria to Cape Town, Pretoria to Victoria Falls, and the long Cape Town to Dar es Salaam run over colonial-era Central African alignments. The routes are old; the service is thirty-seven years old.
3. Knowledge
4. The Blue Train
5. Rovos Rail
6. Track gauge as a colonial decision
7. Connections
8. The Blue Train
9. Track gauge as a colonial decision
10. Rovos Rail runs its first train
11. Track gauge as a colonial decision
12. Rovos Rail
13. The Union Limited and Union Express begin running to the mail ships
14. The Blue Train name is adopted
15. The Blue Train
16. Rovos Rail
17. The Ghan
18. The Union Limited and Union Express begin running to the mail ships
19. The Ghan begins running on the Central Australia Railway
20. The last narrow-gauge Ghan leaves Marree
21. Rovos Rail runs its first train
22. Evidence
23. 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.