3:15pm on a very hot and humid summer afternoon and a typical afternoon thunderstorm is building, as 18-333 passes through Camperdown Station with a load of CAR Wagon empties. These wagon types a... (more)

After following the train for quite a way on this day, the assistant was very amused and keen to wave by this stage. This is 18-502 negotiating the top loop at Boughton in Pietermaritzburg with a... (more)

A scheduled Rovos Rail train, with mostly stunning and hugely impressive vintage clerestory roofed coaches in the consist, has made a routine stop at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midla... (more)

Track maintenance ahead, so please proceed with caution! 18-121 is Durban bound with a Car Train and has just been crossed over to the loop line at Boughton Station to run contra flow down throug... (more)

18-601 passing through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with loaded grain wagons, while a load of containers heading for Kaserne in Johannesburg is on the up line. The train is Du... (more)

18-067 has just completed the difficult, steep and very twisty climb up from Pietermaritzburg to the top of Boughton with a load of tanker wagons. The climb will however continue from this point,... (more)

18-601 and 18-512 are seen here working a Rail / Works Train down towards Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg. At the time there was extensive work being done on the section of the line that run... (more)

18-036 passing through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, with a mixed load (Covered Wagons & Steel). The train is Durban bound and has about 3½ hours of its journey remaining unt... (more)

An outward bound from Durban cement train, headed by 18-237 / 18-639, is climbing out of Pietermaritzburg through Boughton and towards Cedara. Large volumes of cement are carried on the Natal Mai... (more)

About 500 meters away from Cato Ridge Station and 18-048 is outward bound from Durban with a load of C Type Wagon empties. The empties were probably bound for one of the coal mining towns in North... (more)

18-066 and a cement train pass the wreck of a Cessna, that a bit earlier had overshot the end of a runway on landing at a private airstrip on a farm on top of the hill to the right of the photo an... (more)

Unfortunately the weather did not play along for this rare occasion when two of PRASA's brand new Class 18E main line passenger haulers, 18-431 & 18-430, visited Kelso on the KwaZulu Natal South C... (more)

Unsettled weather and the promise of some snow in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, which unfortunately did not materialise. 18-035 is seen here climbing the hill out of Lions River up towards Tweedie w... (more)

A lovely spring afternoon and 18-294 is heading this empty "Python" (65 x C Type Wagons) through Nottingham Road in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. The train originated in Cato Ridge and is bound for... (more)

Early on a chilly winter morning in Lidgetton in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands and seven Class 18E locomotives, 18-199 / 18-416 / 18-127 / 18-243 / 18-602 / 18-652 / 18-177 (5½ pictured here), are D... (more)