African steam train - Swaziland, Mozambique, South Africa 1972

This the first 8mm cine film reel shot by Mike Grieves in 1972. It is part of the Train Bytes series of railway films on YouTube from SVS Film. Commentary is by Mike Grieves himself, with several maps to aid placing locations.
Featured includes South African Railways 15CA at Rayton, Garratts, 14R and S2's at Waterval Boven, scenes at Sidvokodvo yard in Swaziland (now Eswatini), Baldwin 301 class at Machava in Mozambique, ex-Rhodesian railways 14th Garratt (2-6-2+2-6-2), a 2-8--2T shunting at Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) docks followed by 331 class 4-6-2. 301 class Baldwin 4-6-2 and 260 class 2-10-2 at Machava plus 14th Garratt. SAR class 19D shunting at Golela, At Mtubatuba a GMA Garratt on freight upgrade and a 19D on passenger downgrade. Three types of Garratt seen at Empangeni. The remaining scenes are between Kranskop and the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg at City View, a freight only line, with grades as stiff
as 1 in 30, all a mixture of GF and GMA Garratts.
Chapters list:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Arrival in Johannesburg
00:30 Rayton 15CA class
01:17 Waterval Boven GM Garratts and 14R
02:08 Carolina with GMA Garratt
03:01 Sidvokodvo Yard
04:41 Machava 301 class and 14th class Garratt
08:08 Lourenco Marques docks
10:34 Moamba
13:11 14th class Garratt
13:34 Machava 301 class 4-6-2
14:03 Machava 260 class 2-10-2 and 14th class
15:47 Golela 19D class
16:59 Mtubatuba GMA Garratt and 19D
17:57 Empangeni various Garratts
20:33 Kranskop Garratts
21:08 Greytown
23:22 Pietermaritzburg