Heading down to the "sleepy hollow" in the centre of the photo. Late on a lovely spring afternoon and Class 18E locomotives, 18-236 / 18-506 / 18-416, begin to straighten out from the to... (more)

Sunrise at the PRASA (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) yard just north of Durban Station. Brand new to the PRASA Class 18E fleet at the time the photo was taken, 18-435 (with 18-434 coupled... (more)

Class 18E, 18-229, has just crossed the steel bridge and is making the right handed turn to pass through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a load of tanker wagons. The train ... (more)

Late on a lovely spring afternoon and Class 18E locomotives, 18-236 / 18-506 / 18-416, begin to straighten out from the top balloon at Boughton in Pietermaritzburg and prepare for the next stage o... (more)

Class 18E, 18-388 (one of the lower numbered of this Class to have been put into the TFR red livery), heads this container train through Howick North, past Midmar Dam. The train is Johannesburg b... (more)

The very beautiful and charming Inchanga Station, now the home of KwaZulu Natal Steam Preservation Group, Umgeni Steam Railway, was built under the Natal Government Railways administration in 1892... (more)

18-066 / 18-055 / 18-523, from the Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot in Durban, have just arrived at Cato Ridge to pick up empty CAR Wagons to take them up to one of the coal towns in Northern KwaZ... (more)

18-613 with an empty Python (CAR Wagons) is about to cross the steel bridge out of Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. The train is bound for one of the Northern Natal coal towns a... (more)

RIP Louwtjie Coetzee.

Class 18E, 18-506, is in charge of this Durban bound (Kings Rest) container train. Pictured here at Willow Farm Crossing in Umlaas Road, the train is being crossed over to run contra flow down to... (more)

A beautiful winter morning as 18-317 brings her cement train right handed into Dargle Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, having just made the climb up from Lions River. There is however no ro... (more)

Early on a winter morning as 18-067 bites down hard into the cambered left hand curve out of Ashburton Station with a shortish mixed train. The train was en-route to Joannesburg, with a scheduled... (more)

18-317, with her refreshed face, has made the climb up out of Pietermaritzburg to the top of Boughton with her bulk load of cement. The line levels out briefly now, before the climb up to Cedara ... (more)

A very faded 18-048 (since been repainted) is outward bound from Durban with a load of CAR Type Wagon empties passing through Balgowan. The empties were probably bound for one of the coal mining t... (more)

Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-603, is in charge of this empty Python that is seen here passing through Umlaas Road having just left Cato Ridge. The train is headed for the coalfields of North... (more)