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FOTR heritage steam train to Cullinan

Sun Feb 11, 08:00 - Sat Feb 16, 18:30

Hermanstad Train Station

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Take a vintage steam train trip from Hermanstad, Pretoria to the village of Cullinan and return.


Departing at 08:00 and with a return departure at 15:15 (to be home by about 18:00), you will enjoy several hours in the pictuesque old diamond mining village of Cullinan. Strole around, enjoy a leisurely lunch at one of the several cafes and restaurants (advance reservations recommended) or bring your own picnic to the park. Braai fires also available.


You will board one of our 60-year-old railway coaches at our own private Hermanstad Station a few kilometers north-west of the Pretoria city centre and settle into your seat, knowing that your car is safe on our gated premises and being looked after by our staff. One of our vintage steam locomotives will have chuffed-up and coupled onto the train. The guard will have waved his green flag, the loco whistle will have sounded and we'll be off!


You can sit back and completely relax as first the city and then the country-side slips effortlessly by, accompanied by the old smells and sounds of the steam loco up-front. The coach wheels beneath rap gently over the rail joints -- clack-clack, clack-clack. You cannot help but enjoy train travel in the relaxed way it used to be. You can enjoy a breakfast snack and sip hot coffee or cool refreshments from the on-board kiosk and answer your children's many excited questions. You may even sip at one of the "cold ones" you brought aboard in your own cooler box. And, all while you do not have to keep your eyes on the road. Before you know it, you are in Cullinan and you didn't even have to drive there. That wasn't just train-travel that you've experienced, that was time-travel as well! Indeed, with us you really do travel back in time. And... you do not have to dream it!


After your own choice of a lunch in one of Cullinan's cute trendy cafes, restaurants, or pubs, even a Harry's or a Wimpy you reboard the train at 15:00 for the trip back home. The train arrives back at Hermanstad around 18:15. Your kids will have enjoyed a full, busy day and may even have fallen asleep to the sounds and the rocking of the train, leaving you to relax and contemplate a really nostalgic day out.


Book here now and come ride with us on this fun and different family day outing!!


Ticket prices to Cullinan and return:

Adults (19 and over): R320.00

Pensioners over 65, registered students and disabled people: R270.00

Teens 13 to 18: R240

Children 4 to 12: R160

Children 0 to 3: free - please note that reservations should still be made for young children so that we can allocate seating.

If you book and pay for 15 or more seats (excluding infants) at one time you get a 10% discount (via Quicket online or direct bookings with FOTR - regret this discount NOT available at Computicket).


This trip is approximately 2,5 to 3 hours in duration in each direction. Please note that we make every effort to run and route our trips as advertised. However delays may sometimes occur that are beyond our direct control. All timings, routings and destinations are dependent upon the availability of the railway networks' lines that we run over. In the event of network line closures or maintenance we may have to change the routing or run a supplementary bus service without necessarily giving advance notice.


Please note that important terms, conditions and limitations of liability will apply to all passengers on FOTR train trips. You may read them on ourt website here: Terms and Conditions.

DIRECTIONS

FOTR heritage steam train to Cullinan
Hermanstad Train Station
152 Miechaelson St, Pretoria, 0082, South Africa
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