Rovos Rail

Rovos Rail is a train operating company that operates luxury trains on the Cape gauge network of southern Africa. " Home station " is the Capital Park Station in Pretoria, South Africa. Founded in 1989 by Rohan Vos Rovos Rail. He even accompanied most of the rides.

Routes

Rovos Rail operates in South Africa and beyond for a annual timetable on various tracks. The trains are formed from converted historic, renovated luxury South African coaches that offer all the comfort for passengers. In the train is next to the living room sleeping car (with two or three suites per car ) is also a dining car, a lounge car and a terrace or pulpit car at the rear of the train. Outside of South Africa, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and each at least once a year, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Swakopmund in Namibia are approached regularly.

The regularly serviced routes are:

• Pretoria to Cape Town
• Pretoria to Durban
• Cape Town to George
• Pretoria to Victoria Falls
• Cape Town to Dar es Salaam ( Pride of Africa )
• Pretoria to Swakopmund

Rovos Rail offered in 2008 and 2010 also inspired by Cecil Rhodes ' Cape to Cairo plan your route Cape Town to Cairo. This route was realized, however, north of Victoria Falls instead of by train with a historic aircraft located the ligand also owned by Rohan Vos Rovos Air. Stops north of Tanzania were among other Addis Ababa and Khartoum.

Incidents

On 22 May 2008 burned 14 of the then 75 owned by the railway company wagons out in a fire at a railway depot. People did not come with the misfortune to damage. The fire department estimated the damage at several million euros.

On 21 April 2010, a train Rovos Rail put in a change of locomotive at Pretoria in motion and derailed. Three people died, 15 of the 19 cars were destroyed.