West Coast Flower Tour - Cape Town to Graafwater - Day One

On Friday, August 18, Ceres Rail Company departed Unity yard in Cape Town for their first annual West Coast Flower Tour. For two months every year, the South African west coast erupts with wild daisies an occurrence that attracts visitors from far and wide.
The train consisted of South African Class 19D, number 3322 with one X-17 auxiliary water tanker and seven restored coaches.
Day one saw the train travelling from Cape Town to Graafwater. Graafwater is a tiny town in the Sandveld situated 300 km North of Cape Town. Initially established by the railways as a servicing and goods facility the town later saw further development at the hands of the local Dutch Reformed Church. In recent decades the withdrawal of the railways and decline in the local economy has led to a serious decline in the region.
On Day two the train traveled from Graafwater to Klawer where the locomotive and coaches were turned on the wye in the Transnet Depot while passengers got transported by bus to see the flowers.
They returned to Graafwater later the same day. Day three saw the train returning to Cape Town with a water and fuel stop at Moorreesburg. I did not film day two, but returned on day three, picking up the chase on the outskirts of Eendekuil.
Ceres Rail Company can be contacted at www.ceresrail.co.za or via their Facebook account.

[@clonking4436]

Great footage. Grand locomotive and coach stock.

[@WayneSA85]

Thanks for watching.

[@viviennehart14]

Such memories of the Union Limited tours!

[@WayneSA85]

Thanks Vivienne.

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[@WayneSA85]

Thank you Mark

[@SterremanWillie]

Truly fantastic stuff! Great footage and excellently edited. Keep up the good work and keep them videos coming! One question: what funny beat did Dominique make when leaving Malmesbury? It sounded like wheelspin but did not look like it?

[@WayneSA85]

Thanks for watching Willie. You're a long standing supporter of my channel. It was wheel slip, very subtle though.

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[@rossbryan6102]

NICE VIDEO! THIS IS A FINE LOOKING MACHINE AND THE LONG TENDER FITS IN WELL! WAS THIS LOCO BUILT AS AN OIL BURNER, OR WAS IT CONVERTED LATER? WHO IS THE BUILDER? IS A BOOTH BURNER NOZZLE USED IN THE FIREBOX? ENJOYED , KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!!

[@WayneSA85]

Hi Ross, The locomotive is a class 19D, commonly known as Dollies in South Africa. 268 of them were built by multiple manufacturers including Borsig, Henschel & Son and North British Locomotive. The locomotive seen in the video was built by North British and they generally used two tender types. A square box type classified as an MX tender and the round Vanderbilt. The dollies were all coal burner and this one including its sister number 3321 was converted to oil burner by the museum many years ago.

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