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I have seen two 16 coach trains with 15th class Garratts both standing on platform 1 at Bulawayo Station. The first to leave was a school train taking Boarders home to Zambia. This train did not need to stop apart from watering and loco/crew change. The second, 15 mins later, was the normal mail train (passenger train to non Rhodesians)which did stop at a number of stations. We only had 2 passanger trains a day. The mail and the mixed which was a fast goods with a few coaches taged to the back. All trains had full vacum brakes through out. The mail was made up of 4th class behind the loco, then 3rd, 2nd and 1st at the rear to keep the noise down.
Syd
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