Service to Simon's Town resumes

From "Railways Africa" the service resumes after many months with no service due to damaged sea wall. "The points and signals are remotely controlled from Windermere." (UK?) Here's a video of the coast betweem Cape Town and Simon's Town.
Photo: Simon's Town.
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It's a beautiful stretch of coast with the railway line running right along the sea front. Simon's Town itself is a nice little town, quite historic, with the naval base and all. Just up the coast is the penguin colony.

Here's Boulder's penguin colony, Simon's Town. I recommend the leap of faith video of a penguin doing it.
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johnthefireman wrote:It's a beautiful stretch of coast with the railway line running right along the sea front. Simon's Town itself is a nice little town, quite historic, with the naval base and all. Just up the coast is the penguin colony.

I took the train there in about 1980. It was a nice trip on an EMU from Cape Town. I got down to the actual Cape and viewed the ocean. I can't remember how I got there.

It is indeed still a nice trip by EMU.

Whenever we're in Cape Town we usually hire a car for a day and drive down the western coast of the peninsula via Chapman's Peak Road to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point, and then drive back up the eastern side via the penguins and Simon's Town. It's a beautiful journey, awesome in the true sense of being awe-inspiring rather than the modern devalued slang sense.