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    Military solution to the Exna mystery

    Jan 18, 2022 2 minutes

    MICHAEL Throssell’s letter in issue 288 about the name of National Railways of Zimbabwe Class 20 No. 717 interested me since I worked in Southern Africa and visited Rhodesia/Zimbabwe several times before and after independence.

    After dieselisation of the lines around Salisbury/Harare, all the steam power migrated to Bulawayo motive power depot in Matabeleland. When the Garratts were rebuilt by Zeco in Bulawayo, many were given, which means elephant. The 20s, including No. 717, were given the names of Matabele regiments, and the 20As were named after rivers in Matabeleland.

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