New arrival from Koedoespoort. Class 18E series 2 locomotive, 18-673, as a brand new locomotive and looking rather smart in her red Transnet Freight Rail livery on the ready line at Umbilo Electri... (more)

Class 18E, 18-266, looking good in her somewhat refreshed Spoornet ‘blue” livery is pictured here running down past Boughton Station (contra flow on the “up” loop line). She had a load of... (more)

A lovely winter sunrise at Ashburton Station found this shut down grain train (outward bound from Durban), headed by Class 18E, 18-055. Judging by the lack of any security personnel in attendance... (more)

This Durban bound container train, headed by Class 18E (Series 1) locomotive 18-088, is seen here at the top of Boughton. The train is about to tackle the very steep gradient down into Pietermar... (more)

PRASA Class 18E locomotives, 18-404 / 18-403, are Durban bound with the overnight Johannesburg - Durban passenger train, the Trans Natal (Shosholoza Meyl). The train is pictured here at the top o... (more)

Lots in view at the PRASA yard just North of Durban Station. From left / Right – ET (the PRASA / Metrorail emergency train), a couple of ballast wagons (blue), Class 6E1 (E1394), Class 18E locom... (more)

PRASA (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) Class 18E,18-405, with the "Trans Natal", an overnight Johannesburg - Durban passenger train, is busy making a scheduled crew change stop at... (more)

Grabbing the tail end of this group of five light Class 18E locomotives in late winter afternoon sunlight, as they ready themselves to swing fairly sharply right handed through Cliffdale Station. ... (more)

A Johannesburg bound container train, led by Class 18E Series 1 locomotive, 18-299 (Spoornet "blue" livery still in very good condition), twists its way up towards Hammarsdale. The Natal Main Line... (more)

PRASA Class 18E locomotives, 18-427 & 18-403, leave the Durban Carriage & Wagon Inspection Yard after cutting off the main line passenger train that they had just arrived from Johannesburg with on... (more)

A Johannesburg bound container train nears the top of the steep gradient on the approach to Cedara Station in the KZN Midlands. The lead locomotive, 18-216, was experiencing difficulties and actu... (more)

Brand new at the time to the Transnet Freight Rail Class 18E fleet as pictured at the Danskraal Locomotive Depot in Ladysmith, Northern KwaZulu Natal. Numbered as 18-416, she is one of a few loco... (more)

Dirty and well traveled locomotives. The mainstay of the very busy Natal Main Line, or the Natal Corridor as it is also known, in terms of motive power, the Class 18E. 18-079 / 18-054 stand ready... (more)

400 meters in front of the train is the spot where a young news reporter, Winston Churchill, was captured during the Anglo Boer War (1899 - 1902), when the train he was travelling on was seized by... (more)

Sundown at Cedara Station and the Blue Train, with 18-802 / 18-807 in charge, has just completed the 6.9km section of track up through Cedara Tunnel. After a weekend in Durban, the train had depa... (more)