Some fresh paint at the dawning of a new day. The first two of this class to be put into the PRASA "blue" livery. E1667 (with E1603 behind) are Class 6E1 Series 5 electric locomotives, that orig... (more)

Ex QR National Railway, 2111D, being craned off the “Clipper Amber” at Maydon Wharf in Durban. 2111D formed part of a consignment of locomotives that arrived in South Africa in June 2012 from... (more)

Class 6E1, E1598 (in her original South African Railway livery and still sporting at least one of her prized and highly collectable brass number plates, outside the workshops of the Umbilo Electri... (more)

Shosholoza Meyl / PRASA Class 7E, E7010, is pictured here at the Transnet Engineering workshops in Durban, having just undergone a repaint into the Shosholoza Meyl purple livery. E7010 is an East... (more)

A type 10M5 Metrorail commuter set arriving at Durban Station.

Early on a winter morning and 18-403 / 18-422 are taking the overnight Johannesburg to Durban passenger train, the "Trans Natal", down to the inspection pits just north of Durban Station... (more)

18-404 and 18-427 (with their paired running mates behind them), are occupying their usual spot when staged in Durban under the Argyle Road Bridge, in between mainline passenger train workings. It... (more)

In service shunting locomotives at rest in three liveries! Just after sunrise on a Sunday morning in one of the yards at Bayhead in Durban and the day has not yet begun for Class 8E (Electric) and... (more)

Shunters at rest! Just after sunrise on a Sunday morning along Maydon Wharf in Durban and the day has not yet begun for Class 36 diesel shunting locomotives 36-237 / 36-213 / 36-220 / 36-227 / 36-... (more)

E8048 / E8051 are two examples of their Class (Class 8E Centre Cab Electric Shunting Locomotives) that remain in service as of November 2014. Originally 100 of these locomotives were placed in se... (more)

Slowly but surely repaints into the red TFR (Transnet Freight Rail) livery of the older members of the locomotive fleet are taking place. 36-238 is a recent example of this, a Class 36 Diesel Shu... (more)

The first of this class into the PRASA livery! E1603 is a Class 6E1 Series 5 electric locomotive, that originally entered service in 1976, with what was then the South African Railways. Now fall... (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 104 (GE U20C) is picture... (more)

36-214 / 36-218 / Shunter Wagon “Natalspruit” / 36-240 along Maydon Wharf at the start of another busy day’s shunting for them. With reference to Col. André Kritzinger's Wikipedia referen... (more)

E1394 is the last remaining working Class 6E1 locomotive in Durban and her future remains uncertain at this time. She is pictured here on her return to the yard in Durban from CTE (Commuter Trans... (more)