Steam in Africa

Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls. 1986. A passenger train hauled by a 16A class Garratt steam locomotive of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) departs from the Victoria Falls station to Bulawayo.

Zimbabwe, Mbalabala. 1986. A 16a-Class Garrett steam locomotive hauls a cargo train to Bulawayo.

Zimbabwe, near Mbalabala. 1986. Engine master Arthur Murtagh lubrificates the roller bearings of his 16a-Class Garrett steam locomotive.

Zimbabwe, near Mbalabala. 1986. Engine master Arthur Murtagh lubrificates the roller bearings of his 16a-Class Garrett steam locomotive.

Zimbabwe, Mbalabala. 1986. A worker fills the tender of a Garrett steam locomotive with water. Steam traction was abandoned in the nineties.

Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. 1986. Workers at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) repair shop.

Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. 1986. Garratt steam locomotives at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) repair shop.

Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. 1986. Garratt steam locomotives at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) repair shop.

Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. 1986. Workers clean the boiler of a Garratt steam locomotive at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) repair shop.

Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. 1986. Workers maintain a Garratt steam locomotive at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) repair shop.

Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. 1986. Workers in their office at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) repair shop.

Zimbabwe, Bulawayo. 1986. Early morning at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) repair shop.

Eritrea, Asmara, 1994. A Ernesto Breda engine dating from 1929 stays idle in the railway shed. The only railway track, between Asmara and the port of Massawa, was destroyed during the independence war with Ethiopia.

Mozambique, Manica province, Chimoio. 1992. A mother and child sit on the platform of the railway station and watch a shunting Garrett steam locomotive.

Mozambique, Manica province. 1992. A Garratt steam locomotive shunts at the Machipanda railway station near the border with Zimbabwe.

Mozambique, Inhambane. 1998. Railway workers in front of a Porter no. 572 steam locomotive (transferred during the early 1970s to Inhambane). Although the railway line is out of order, the locomotives are still being maintained.

Mozambique, Sofala Province, Inhaminga. 1995. An abandoned rare G-class locomotive nº. 60 that once served on the TZR, the Trans Zambezia Railway. The G-class was also the last steam locomotive built by North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow, Scotland.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Inhaminga. 1994. A woman washes clothes in the pit of the National Railways of Mozambique (CFM) former workshop in Inhaminga. This workshop used to do the maintenance for the Beira-Tete railway that was destroyed during the civil war between RENAMO and the government (1976-1992). Repair is currently underway (2010).

Mozambique, Sofala province. Inhaminga. 1994. As the railroad between Beira and northern Tete was destroyed by civil war activities, these sleepers are now used as night shelter for goats.

Mozambique, Manica province, Gondola. 1992. A young woman carries her baby across the railway yard littered with broken down steam locomotives.

Mozambique, Manica province, Gondola.1992. A welder at work in the repair shop of the Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), the National Railways of Mozambique.

Mozambique, Manica province, Gondola.1992. Inside the repair shop of the National Railways of Mozambique.

Mozambique, Manica province, Gondola. 1992. Tools in the Gondola CFM (National Railways of Mozambique) repair shop.

Mozambique, Manica province, Gondola. 1994. At the repair shop of the Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), the National Railways of Mozambique. A railway worker prepares his lunch on a fire under a derelict steam engine.

Mozambique, Sofala province, Savane, 1994. Trees grow on the once busy and important railway line between Beira and Tete. This track was destroyed during the civil war (1976-1992) between RENAMO rebels and the government. Repair is currently underway (started in 2010).

Mozambique, Manica province, Gondola. 1994. A derelict railway sleeper at the repair shop of the National Railways of Mozambique depot.

Mozambique, Manica province, Matsinho.1992. Children near the Beira Corridor railway line.

Mozambique, Manica Province near Vila de Manica. 1992. Two diesel locomotives haul a cargo train on the Beira Corridor Railway towards the border with Zimbabwe.

Mozambique, Manica Province near Vila de Manica. 1992. A cargo train passes a railway crossing of the Beira Corridor Railway between Beira and Zimbabwe.