Скачать или смотреть Rovos Rail - Part One

One of the most luxurious trains in South Africa and possibly the world. Rovos Rail operates on some of the most scenic routes throughout southern Africa and offers accommodation that is more in line with that of Five-star hotels than the rail industry.

Rohan Vos established Rovos Rail in 1985 after purchasing a number of redundant South African Railways coaches from an auction, his interest was ignited after taking a journey on a preserved train to Magaliesberg.

The idea of running a family caravan soon turned into a commercial opportunity, but operating privately owned trains on the national network proved to be both difficult and expensive. With dwindling ticket sales and a struggling local economy, many years of hardship followed, but the turnaround finally came with the establishment of the Cape Town to Victoria Falls route that was advertised abroad and quickly gained support.

Today the company boasts an impressive fleet of both locomotives and other rolling stock as well as their own yard and station facilities at Capital Park, Pretoria. Including a number of South African Class 19D's, 25NC's and more recently 5E's, these are only used in around Pretoria. They have also purchased five Australian Clyde EMD GL26C's that I understand are to be used on some of their long-distance packages such as Dar Es Salaam and Victoria Falls. On the remainder of the national network, traction is provided by Transnet using the South African Class 18E's.

The following series of clips features the train in the Breede River Valley, Western Cape, South Africa. Part One was filmed using my old Sony CX-220 without a shielded microphone. The subsequent episodes were filmed using my new generation equipment.

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