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All aboard for luxury travel KARISHMA DIPA karishma dipa@inl.co.za

THE Blue Train, which has transported passengers around South Africa in luxury for almost a century, was literally stopped in its tracks for nearly six months during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The national landmark, which once carried former president Nelson Mandela, supermodel Naomi Campbell, US record producer Quincy Jones and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was one of the many tourism facilities forced to cease their operations as the novel coronavirus swept across the globe.

Travellers could no longer

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