A very smokey / hazy afternoon (dry winter seasonal fires which are very common at this time of year) in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. This is Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-502, climbing the hi... (more)

Class 36 (200) diesel shunting locomotives (GM-EMD SW1002), 36-220 & 36-246, working sugar wagons around the top of one of the Bayhead yards. Slowly but surely these shunters in the old Spoornet "... (more)

The Grime Side Of The Force indeed Jean-Marc Frybourg! I photographed Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-645 (pictured here at Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg), as a brand new locomotive shor... (more)

It’s a chilly winter morning with some residual snow about on the surrounding mountains from a couple of days earlier. PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl's Trans Natal, an economy class overnight Johannesb... (more)

Zooming in on the luxurious South African Blue Train, headed by Class 18E Series 2 locomotive 18-773, in the section between Camperdown and Umlaas Road. The train was making a leisurely Sunday af... (more)

A brand new (refurbished) Type 5M2A motor coach for PRASA / Metrorail, seen here returning to one of the Metrorail yards just North of Durban Station. What is nice about this refurbishment is tha... (more)

Crossing the steel girder bridge across the Lions River into Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Class 18E series 1 Locomotive, 18-224 is Durban bound with a load of coal, probably... (more)

Sunrise and another busy day ahead. One of the many hard working Class 36 (200) diesel shunting locomotives (GM-EMD SW1002), 36-214, working around the Maydon Wharf / Bayhead / Durban area. Slow... (more)

Rosetta Station in the beautiful KwaZulu Natal Midlands. 18-509 is at the head of this quintet of Class 18E locomotives and has a load of empty Type CAR Wagons. The train is heading for the coal... (more)

A chilly and very dry winter afternoon as three matching Spoornet “blue” liveried Class 18E Series 1 locomotives, headed by 18-311, climb the hill up towards the Nelson Mandela Capture Site / ... (more)

On occasion full time freight haulers are called upon to head South Africa's internationally renowned luxury passenger train, the Blue Train. Class 18E Series 1 locomotive, 18-328 (and her running... (more)

Modified Class 5E1 Series 5 locomotive, E1101, originally built in 1968 pictured here on a very rare occasion down the KwaZulu Natal South Coast at Pennington. The Late Colonel André Kritzinger ... (more)

A beautiful morning and sunrise. PRASA Class 6E1 locomotives, E1438 & E1321, in the Spoornet “orange” livery at their New Durban Yard awaiting their next duty assignment. PRASA were still us... (more)

Class 6E1 locomotives E1513 / E1540 / E1783 are pictured here at Ilfracombe on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast as they make their way back to their depot at Wentworth, in Durban. They had just dropp... (more)

A very dry winter afternoon as three faded Spoornet “blue” liveried Class 18E Series 1 locomotives, headed by 18-281, climb the hill up towards the Nelson Mandela Capture Site / Memorial, in ... (more)