A nice hello from Section Manager / Driver Ettiene Smith behind the controls of veteran Class 6E1 electric locomotive, E1658, while passing through Ashburton Station. The Transnet Engineering Wo... (more)

Out with the purple and in with the blue. PRASA recently reliveried their Premier Classe coaches (previously all purple) in their "blue", as per the generator car on the left. The colo... (more)

Class 6E1 Series 3, E1394, built in 1972/3, is still at the yard in Durban with an uncertain future. A possible conversion / upgrade to Class 18E can be ruled out now, as the conversion programme... (more)

Following a change to the crew at the very well kept Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands (due to the hard work of caretaker Daniel Madlala), E1658 / E1595 / E1318, continue on their ... (more)

Veteran Class 6E1 electric locomotives, E1658 / E1595 / E1318, are pictured here passing through Ashburton Station on their way to Johannesburg, having just left the Transnet Engineering Workshops... (more)

The "Trans Natal", an overnight Johannesburg - Durban passenger train, headed by two Class 6E1 electric locomotives (in Spoornet "orange" livery), E1417 and E1321, crosses a mixed freight on the s... (more)

Some fresh paint at the dawning of a new day. The first two of this class to be put into the PRASA "blue" livery. E1667 (with E1603 behind) are Class 6E1 Series 5 electric locomotives, that orig... (more)

E1510 and the overnight Durban to Johannesburg passenger train, "Trans Natal", is pictured here at Pepworth, about 10km on the Johannesburg side of Ladysmith. The train was running almo... (more)

Class 6E1, E1598 (in her original South African Railway livery and still sporting at least one of her prized and highly collectable brass number plates, outside the workshops of the Umbilo Electri... (more)

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl Class 6E1 locomotives (still in their "orange" Spoornet livery), E1314 / E1389, are busy running around a special 2012 Tourism Indaba Premier Classe Special. They... (more)

The first of this class into the PRASA livery! E1603 is a Class 6E1 Series 5 electric locomotive, that originally entered service in 1976, with what was then the South African Railways. Now fall... (more)

E1394 is the last remaining working Class 6E1 locomotive in Durban and her future remains uncertain at this time. She is pictured here on her return to the yard in Durban from CTE (Commuter Trans... (more)

E1511 / E1577 / E1569 / E1401 have just come off the Umgababa Bridge and are running light units from Umkomaas to their depot at Wentworth, Durban. E1511 and E1569, have subsequent to this photo ... (more)

Early on a bright, yet chilly winter morning, at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. E1592, in her original SAR livery, is making a scheduled crew change stop, with the overnight J... (more)

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)