This is Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-502, at the top of the bank just past the Hebron Haven (guest farm) crossing at Lions River in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a Durban bound grain train ... (more)

A very smokey / hazy afternoon (dry winter seasonal fires which are very common at this time of year) in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. This is Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-502, climbing the hi... (more)

It’s a chilly winter morning with some residual snow about on the surrounding mountains from a couple of days earlier. PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl's Trans Natal, an economy class overnight Johannesb... (more)

Crossing the steel girder bridge across the Lions River into Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Class 18E series 1 Locomotive, 18-224 is Durban bound with a load of coal, probably... (more)

A chilly and very dry winter afternoon as three matching Spoornet “blue” liveried Class 18E Series 1 locomotives, headed by 18-311, climb the hill up towards the Nelson Mandela Capture Site / ... (more)

A very dry winter afternoon as three faded Spoornet “blue” liveried Class 18E Series 1 locomotives, headed by 18-281, climb the hill up towards the Nelson Mandela Capture Site / Memorial, in ... (more)

PRASA (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) Class 18E,18-405, with the "Trans Natal", an overnight Johannesburg - Durban passenger train, is busy making a scheduled crew change stop at... (more)

A Johannesburg bound container train nears the top of the steep gradient on the approach to Cedara Station in the KZN Midlands. The lead locomotive, 18-216, was experiencing difficulties and actu... (more)

A Petrol Train passing through Lions River on a crisp spring afternoon

Sundown at Cedara Station and the Blue Train, with 18-802 / 18-807 in charge, has just completed the 6.9km section of track up through Cedara Tunnel. After a weekend in Durban, the train had depa... (more)

A down container train heading towards Durban on a very crisp day.

Class 18E locomotives, 18-114 / 18-661 / 18-521, are heading a grain train through Lions River up towards Dargle in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. On a day that saw a number of grain trains exiting ... (more)

A grain train from the coast is heading inland here passing nearby the Hebron Heaven Hotel on a superb day out in the Natal midlands.

Contra flow working. 18-272 is heading this Johannesburg bound grain train into Tweedie Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Partial line occupation for maintenance resulted in trains having t... (more)

A Durban bound Rovos Rail set (luxury passenger train) is busy coming off the main line to make a scheduled stop at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Motive power for the regiona... (more)