Choo Choo Park

Choo Choo Park is a public playground in a big park with lots of sunshine, with trees that provide plenty of shade. The park is well-maintained. There are some eateries and shops across the road where you can buy snacks and drinks

The old locomotive in the park for children to play on was a Brooks locomotive #2725, built in 1896. It started its service as number 1 at the Transvaal & Delagoa Bay Collieries Ltd near Witbank. In the early 1900s, it was used to build Simon’s Town Naval Yard.

The locomotive later became the property of the City of Cape Town. and was used as a shunter at the Dock Road and Table Bay power stations on the Cape Town foreshore, which opened in 1904. The first turbine-driven alternators at the Council’s Dock Road Power Station were installed in 1913 and 1914. The power station was decommissioned on 5 September 1961 and was demolished in 1962.
That is how the locomotive got the name “DYNA-MO”. The Dyna-Mo was retired to the park and was painted in the bright colours you see today. It has recently been spruced up with a new coat of paint.

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43 Belvedere Rd, Claremont,