1970s NG steam 2 - Cape Town

Part 2 - Steam in Cape Town harbour, South Africa, November 1976.

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In 1976 I sailed to South Africa in another cargo ship, calling at Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban and Maputo. The latter port was scheduled by surprise, so I had no more 8mm film left to record the collection of engines of the railways of Mozambique. In Cape Town and Port Elizabeth however, I filmed the shunting operations in the harbour yards, of which I think very little has survived elsewhere. In addition I made a trip from Port Elizabeth to Loerie on the Apple Express over the 2ft gauge Avontuur line. And finally I had a ride on the yard shunter in the East London loco depot, a big 14CR class 4-8-2 tender locomotive.

This video, like the others in the series, was converted from my original 8mm film to digital video tape. The sound track was compiled afterwards using various sound sources, some of it my own location sound, and synchronised as much as possible using freeware audio and video editors.