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Passenger train disaster averted ‘by the grace of God’

THE quick thinking of a resident living near the route of a popular steam train operation in the Upper Highway area recently prevented the possible derailing of the locomotive pulling carriages with more than 200 passengers on board.

A section of an embankment on which the railway track was set in the vicinity of Phezulu Safari Park near Botha’s Hill was washed away, leaving five railway sleepers suspended in the air.

The breach of the embankment’s

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