Rovos Rail runs its first train
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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.
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