Sisulu, son of a black domestic worker and a white railwayman, was a founding member of the ANC's armed wing.
Innes, 69, a crusty former railwayman, fights an unrelenting battle against commercial encroachment from his retirement house a few hundred meters from the soaking spray of the .
Herr Meier, a pensioned railwayman, thereby achieved a statistical distinction: he was the 300,000th refugee to escape to West Berlin in 1953, the biggest year of flight since .
St Ambrose in BBC News But Mr Ambrose says others might not be so quick on the uptake: "Your traditional railwayman that's been on for 30-odd years, they were taught completely differently - to brake really hard to start with - and some of them tend to be set in their...