RAIL
Issue 16
MARCH 2022
ROVOS RAIL Rovos Rail run nine journeys, with seven of them to destinations outside of South Africa. A great opportunity to boost tourism, but the challenges far outweigh the opportunities. alarming decline has a ripple effect
Rovos Rail had a close working relationship with Transnet whose staff were working under investment in rail meant Rovos had
substantial cost, and we’ve applied for permission to use our own about how disturbing it was to chuff past in a bubble of luxury while people languished outside in poverty. Is there still a space for luxury train travel in South Africa? The gap between the haves and have-nots is an ever-widening chasm with the disparities between
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amongst other forms of travel, but the
dire as it is – I don't think it can’t be
standards, but that isn’t impossible if there is a concerted, co-ordinated education of the importance of the
rail services and expertise, coupled with the dramatic increase in the tracks for sale to scrap metal dealers,
Rail – headquartered in Pretoria
infrastructural and operational just a few metres of cable or rail that is being stolen, it is hundreds
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