'Training for Africa' Lambert's Bay

Between 300 and 400 wagons of iron ore are pulled by up to eight locomotives in a huge behemoth of a train on this Ore Export Line. The train connects the iron ore mines near Sishen in the Northern Cape with the port at Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape. I’ve never seen such a long train ever. The total vehicle length stretches for over three miles and took an age to pass under the bridge below my feet. Everything about Africa is huge but this gigantic train really gave some emphasis to the vast distances between destinations here in South Africa.

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Between 300 and 400 wagons of iron ore are pulled by up to eight locomotives in a huge behemoth of a train on this Ore Export Line. The train connects the iron ore mines near Sishen in the Northern Cape with the port at Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape. I’ve never seen such a long train ever. The total vehicle length stretches for over three miles and took an age to pass under the bridge below my feet. Everything about Africa is huge but this gigantic train really gave some emphasis to the vast distances between destinations here in South Africa.