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| The Royal Livingstone
Express 
The Royal Livingstone Express consists of 5 air-conditioned
carriages, 2 dining cars, a kitchen car, lounge car, and an observation car and
is pulled by either a 10th class 156 or a 12th class 204 locomotive. One of the
dining cars, The Wembley, was built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon
Company, and went on display in London at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924.
It was shipped to the Union of South Africa and entered service on 19th May
1926.
The Steam Locomotive, 156 is a 10th Class originally belonging to the largest
private railway network in the world, Zambezi Sawmills Limited. It was used on
the Mulobezi Line to pull logging carriages from the forests in Mulobezi to the
railhead in Livingstone. David Shepherd, renowned wildlife artist, rescued the
locomotive and totally renovated it, to its previous grandeur. He then donated
it to National Heritage and Bushtracks has subsequently restored the locomotive
to working order. |
