After a serious head-on collision the previous Thursday, (no serious injuries were recorded) The recently refurbished 5M2A awaits it's fate in Durban's "E" Yard.

Two of the few remaining Class 8E centre cab electric shunting locomotives (still in their wonderful SAR Red & Whisker livery), E8047 & E8086. Having managed to escape the cutting torch, they are... (more)

This empty timber trains heads to the timber sidings up in Northern KwaZulu Natal area, to be loaded and return to the SAPPI factory in Umkomaas.

Wentworth Breakdown team and it's crane came to load old coach bogies into DZ wagons for scrap, after half the old coach yard had been made part of the Moses Mabhida soccer stadium grounds for the... (more)

(See photo ID 451287 for the "after"). During July 2013 RRL Grindrod South Africa imported two decommissioned Kiwi Rail / Tranz Rail Class DQ - G12C (DQ6347 / DQ6382) locomotives from New Zealand... (more)

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl in Durban's Class 36 shunter, 36-215, about to couple onto the two Class 18E units (18-404 & 18-415), that had just arrived in Durban from Johannesburg with the Trans Natal... (more)

Two Class 6E1 units, headed by E1584, leave Bayhead (the biggest and busiest yard in Durban), for the short run back to their depot at Wentworth, having just cut off their load. E1584, has subseq... (more)

As a brand new Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-645, is pictured here in the workshops at the Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot, having just emerged from the Class 6E1 / Class 18E upgrade program ... (more)

One of the new and very elusive KZN Business Express sets being moved for staging purposes into the Metrorail Yard just north of Durban Station by yard shunter, Class 36 (212). The KZN Business E... (more)

The national flag of Angola has been incorporated prominently in the new livery of CFL (Caminho de Ferro de Luanda) / Luanda Railway - sometimes called Angola Railway. CFL 111 (GE U20C) is pictur... (more)

These two diesel locomotives from the 1960s (CFL 111 & CFL 104) are type GE U20C and belong to CFL (Caminho de Ferro de Luanda) / Luanda Railway - sometimes called Angola Railway. They are pictur... (more)

A mixed batch of 34 ex Tranz Metro (New Zealand) motor coaches and trailers arrived in Durban, South Africa on board the MV Pangani early in April 2014 for Novus / Genrail. The majority of them ar... (more)

Early on a bright Sunday morning as the PRASA (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) / Shosholoza Meyl shunter in Durban, 36-251, exits her overnight staging spot in the Catering Shed just north ... (more)

Class 18E units, 18-415 & 18-404, in their (faded and very dirty) purple Shosholoza Meyl livery, just after their arrival in Durban this morning with an overnight Shosholoza Meyl "ANC Special... (more)

Class 36 Diesel Shunter, 36-251, pushes 18-428 and 18-422 into the shed adjacent to New Durban Yard. 18-428 and 18-422 had just arrived in Durban minutes earlier, with the overnight Johannesburg -... (more)