In 1998 the Transnet Heritage Foundation ran an intensive 4 day steam festival centred on the George Railway Museum. The programme included 2 trips over the famous Montagu Pass. Here we see GF dou... (more)

19D No. 3323 Sarah Jane comes off the Ceres branch into Wolseley station. She has still got another 140 km to go before reaching Cape Town

12AR 1535 pulls away from Vereeniging station on the final leg of the 15 day 4900km Kei Explorer Tour. This locomotive is still in excursion service, in full operating order, under the care... (more)

The 13km Hex River Tunnel was never designed for steam traction, but crews on steam specials had determined it was possible to drift down from Kleinstraat to Salbar without the need for any electr... (more)

14CRB 1882 performing a runpast at Marevlakte

With snow on the upper slopes of the Gydo Mountains providing a suitable backdrop, 19D's 2640 and 3334 depart Prince Alfed Hamlet

Class 24 No. 3632 performs the first runpast of the day on a David C Rodgers charter

Transnet Freight Rail's 861km Sishen - Saldanha operation runs the longest regular bulk-freight trains in the world. With 342 type CR iron-ore wagons and 8 Radio Controlled Distributed Power loco... (more)

Historically, the Blue Train has been South Africa's premier train since its inception in 1938 and is still listed as train No 1 in the current Working Time Book (the first 2 digits show from whi... (more)

Fresh Out the Box (well almost!): A refurbished 10M motor coach set on a run-in turn to Wellington

Limited to 40Km/h for this section, the Blue Train carefully negotiates its way through Tulbagh Kloof

No 2166 pauses for breath at 6th Reverse

The northbound Shosh-Meyl day train from Cape Town on 'Fanie's Curve' north of Wellington

The northbound Shosh-Meyl day train from Cape Town leaves Hugenot station. This station is one of the two remaining sites on the Cape Main Line using semaphore signals.

Runpast #35 of the FOTR/David Benn photocharter