Sunday, May 08, 2022

Elgin Cool Wine Festival - 3. Elgin Railway Market

We decided to pay a quick visit to the Elgin Railway Market, which is in an old apple warehouse at the Elgin railway station, built by Italian prisoners of war during World War 2. It is just outside the entrance to Oak Valley estate. We were greeted by the sight of the historic train which had brought people from Cape Town, a three hour trip – only one hour by car

The loco shares its name with John's daughter

It looked as though she was getting up steam for the return journey

Inside, the Art Deco market building was packed with people enjoying their Saturday

We always visit the fruit and vegetable kiosk, but they didn’t have what we were looking for this time
It did have lots and lots of lovely apples and pears and other fruit grown in the area

Darielle Robertson, who organised the festival for Elgin, was also at the market

It is a great venue for a visit, lots of different food outlets to sample and other stands with a variety of things to buy

and Brian, the Book Bus, an old mobile library, now used outside the market as a shop, sells second hand books


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