 As the track was last re-sleepered by the SAR in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it too was starting to deteriorate.At the meeting to discuss the society's future, "facts were presented showing that since the 1970s, the society had seriously underspent in maintenance on track infrastructure", which was now a problem to be overcome before the trains could run again.A report of the condition of the track was commissioned in order to establish the feasibility of resuming operations.