EddieB

3 pictures from October 1989. The Garratt is 15th class 372, the Zambian diesel 019 working the early morning transfer freight is a long-nose U20C (ought to be put in a glass case?).

There's a reference to the LOG locos here: http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/zambia02.htm which implies that they were on some sort of loan or transfer from Spoornet.

I must say those photographs are stirring some memories!

I made a couple of visits to Victoria Falls in the 'eighties, when many of the Zimbabwe services were still steam worked (15A class, predominantly). At that time cross-border freight was worked by Zambian Railways diesels (there were no passenger services over the bridge). On both occasions we crossed over into Zambia, and made one visit to the railway museum at Livingstone (Zambesi Sawmills). Photography at railway installations in Zambia was officially prohibited, but I did manage a few pictures at the shed/dump in Livingstone in 1982. On the other hand, there were no restrictions at Victoria Falls station and surroundings in Zimbabwe (a comparatively safe place to observe and photograph Zambian motive power).

The NRZ 10A class are GM GT22 LC-2 with construction shared between EMD La Grange (nos 1001-35) and Canada (nos 1036-61). All were supplied in the present yellow livery between November 1981 and June 1982. For full details, including builders numbers, I'd highly recommend "Locomotives of Zimbabwe" by ED Hamer - an excellent book for anyone interested in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.

The SAR 35.400 series are GE U15C (35.401-500) constructed in South Africa (to the same design as the US constructed 35.000 series) between 1976 and 1980. As is evident from the pictures, some have been sold to private companies - I am not familiar where the owner of the loco shown is based.

An indespensible series books to be recommended are "Railways of Southern Africa Locomotive Guide" by John Middleton, which covered all the main railway systems of that region, their loco types and allocations and preserved locos.. Unfortunately the last edition was released in 2002, but John recently posted an update on the SAR-L Yahoo Group. (Sadly this is probably out of date now given the appalling vandalism of once preserved steam locos that seems to be officially sanctioned in South Africa.)

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