The yard foreman has one more tumbler to throw and then E1504 & E1422 will be clear to leave Bayhead Yard to return to their depot at Wentworth, having just dropped off empty timber wagons from Um... (more)

From left to right - Class 8E (E8054) / Class 36 (36-257) / Class 8E (E8032) / Class 6E1 (E1511 & E1408). E1511 & E1408 have just arrived at Bayhead Yard to collect a load of timber wagon empties... (more)

Class 8E centre cab electric shunting locomotives, E8090 & E8054, which entered service in 1983 (100 of them for SAR), are busy doing shunt work at Bayhead Yard, the largest freight yard in Durban... (more)

On the left, Class 6E1 units with E1598 in charge are just about ready to leave the large Bayhead Yard in Durban to return to their depot. On the right are Class 8E electric shunting units workin... (more)

Another angle on Photo ID 438475. Heavy overnight December summer rain resulted in the Amanzimtoti River coming down in flood and eroding into the supporting bank of the line down to the KwaZulu ... (more)

Metrorail Durban's Emergency Train (MET) is front and centre (ish) here, with a couple of track maintenance vehicles to the left and to the right is a type NAY Wagon (Ballast), as well as the last... (more)

This all stops Type 10M5 Metrorail set is about to pass under the Congella Road Bridge and is on its way back to Durban Station.

1722D being prepared for a heavy lift onto an awaiting flatbed trailer. On the 18th September 2013 a consignment of 24 ex Queensland Rail locomotives arrived by sea in Durban, South Africa. 16 we... (more)

On the 18th September 2013 a consignment of 24 ex Queensland Rail locomotives arrived by sea in Durban, South Africa. 16 of them were for RRL Grindrod South Africa and 8 for African Rail & Tractio... (more)

Three RRL Grindrod Diesel Locomotives being readied for their journey to Ncala - Mozambique by sea. This is an ex South African Railway / Transnet Freight Rail Class 35 locomotive, now RRL 35-07, ... (more)

On a miserable winter morning this is ex Queensland Railway Class 1720 Clyde GL18C Co-Co, 1729D, shortly after being craned off the "Clipper Amber" and secured on a flatbed trailer, whil... (more)

On the morning of the 18th December 2013, amid obvious miserable / less than desirable weather conditions in Durban, South Africa, a rather significant railway event played out at O Shed in Durban... (more)

Class 37 Diesels, 37-033 & 37-075 have just arrived with Transnet's Wentworth based Breakdown Train at the scene of yesterday's Metrorail derailment at A Yard just north of Durban Station, to clea... (more)

The Metrorail Yard just north of Durban Station. The photo was taken from the public viewing deck on top of the arch over the Moses Mabhida Soccer Stadium (106 meters above ground level). A set o... (more)

Plinthed on the main concourse of Durban Station is the little 0-4-0 locomotive "Natal", the locomotive that started it all off in South Africa in 1860. Col André Kritzinger, a fellow South Afri... (more)