The golden age of railway travel

Somewhere in the 1970s and 1980s, Botswana’s network of roads was not widely bituminised and to some extent, risky to travel by buses making the train the most convenient and safer mode of transport.

Our buses on the national roads were the likes of the now defunct, Jack D Wright and Matambanazo types, which were not like today’s Mercedes Benz or Marcopolos that are tailor-made for super comfort. It was also just fun travelling by train, with screeching noise from its steel wheels squealing and causing that train-track friction sound.