Even as a young child people would say, ‘steam is in his blood’. Tex never pursued a career in railways, instead the love of steam locomotives and particularly Victorian Railways, has remained not just a hobby, but an obsessive connection with history, hard work and smoke. The photo is Tex filling the coal bunker of an NA loco at Puffing Billy around the age of 13.
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In 1989 a loco and van make up and early morning train from Knysna to George on the ‘Garden Route’ South Africa. Tex visited and filmed the last of South African regular steam operation in 1989 and 1991.