Some nice sun just in time as Class 36 Diesel Shunter, 36-235, takes a trip around the balloon at Bayhead to turn a Plasserail Works Train around. In 1980, 101 of these Class 36-200 series entere... (more)

Ex QR National Railway 3103 just after being craned off the Clipper Amber as part of a consignment of locomotives that arrived in South Africa for various rail companies. 3103 is one of three of ... (more)

Three of the remaining survivors of the original 100 that entered service between 1983 and 1985 for South African Railways - an additional 7 were built for the mining industry. Class 8E, centre c... (more)

36-251 is seen here busy shunting the Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal down to the Carriage & Wagon Inspection Yard. Shunt assistants are about to exchange clearance information re the inspection pi... (more)

An 8 coach Type 10M5 Metrorail set is seen here returning to the Durban Metro Yard just North of Durban Station, down the ramp of the hump crossover bridge. The tallest building to the left of th... (more)

These two Class 36 (200) diesel shunters are sweltering in a very hot and humid Durban summer morning, as they idle away awaiting their next shunting duty orders. I always feel sorry for their cr... (more)

Metrorail's Emergency / Breakdown Train (MET) aka "ET" staged at New Durban Yard.

An older (Type 5M), suburban commuter train, Train No. 0231, operated by Metrorail has just departed Durban Station and is seen here about to head up the KwaZulu Natal North Coast - probably to St... (more)

18-435 / 18-434, the latest two Class 18E locomotives to join the PRASA fleet, had to work / shunt their own train (Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal) down to the yard this morning. Usually the units... (more)

Still in her original South African Railway livery (Red & Whiskers), E8092 is one of the shunting locomotives based at the Durban Metrorail Depot / Yard just north of Durban Station. She was havi... (more)

On the 18th September 2013 a consignment of 24 ex Queensland Rail locomotives arrived by sea in Durban, South Africa. 16 are for RRL Grindrod and 8 for African Rail & Traction Services. 20 will ... (more)

New to the fleet and with their duty finished, 18-432 & 18-433 in their PRASA blue livery are seen here returning to New Durban Yard after their 13 hour journey from Johannesburg to Durban, having... (more)

Just after sunrise at New Durban Yard on a Public Holiday this morning and E8025 is staged with the SWC (Sebenza Weed Chemicals) Train, aka "The Weed Train". Today the train will be working / spr... (more)

Three newly refurbished RRL Grindrod Diesel Locomotives, bound for Ncala – Mozambique, have just been loaded onto Transnet's Floating Crane "Indlovu Durban". The vessel collecting them for their... (more)

Carefully putting RRL 22-02 down on the open deck. Three newly refurbished RRL Grindrod Diesel Locomotives being readied for their journey to Ncala - Mozambique by sea. This is Ex Kiwi Rail DQ634... (more)