The Great Train Race - Heidelberg Heritage

On 27 September Protected content , steam returns to the tracks, engines hum with history, and Heidelberg becomes the stage for South Africa’s most remarkable vintage tribute.

This is your boarding call if you’ve ever longed to feel history rumble beneath your feet.

What happens when history, heritage, and heart all meet on one platform? You get #TheGreatTrainRace2025!

Born from the iconic Protected content between a Bentley and Le Train Bleu, The Great Train Race has been reimagined on South African soil for the past 10 years, not as a competition but as a moving tribute to heritage, elegance, and timeless motion.

In a world driven by digital convenience, The Great Train Race offers something rare: a return to the analogue. To steam, steel, and soul. To a time when travel was theatre.

This isn’t just an event. It’s a celebration of what connects us to the past and what still inspires wonder today.

🗓️ Join us in Heidelberg on 27 September Protected content be part of the living legacy.

Heidelberg train station was once the central hub for rail transport in South Africa and the capital of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek Protected content the 1st Anglo Boer War. It is an important landmark in South African history, originally started as a trading post by the German Ueckermann.

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