SHE thunders into the station in a cloud of steam, the hiss of brakes and the shrill of a whistle, stopping everyone in the station in their tracks.
Jenny, a newcomer to the Southern Cape Railway line between Hartenbos and Great Brak in the Garden Route, is a thing of beauty – but no one is prouder and more in love with this majestic machine than her owners, Sean, Kevin and Graeme Ekström.
The Mossel Bay businessmen discovered Jenny in a depot near Cape Town Station where she’d been languishing for years and faced being dismantled and sold as scrap metal.
Determined to give her a new lease