18-619, with the help of three of her classmates, is heading this heavy coal train down through the steep and very twisty section around Boughton / Boughton Station on the way down to Pietermaritz... (more)

18-103 & 18-034 working as light units through Umlaas Road (probably on their way to Masons Mill in Pietermaritzburg to pick up a load) are doing their best to stay ahead of the unseasonal storm t... (more)

Leaving Durban and bound for Kazerne in Johannesburg is 18-609 with a load of containers, crossing the Mkondeni Viaduct in the section between Ashburton and Pietermaritzburg.

Late afternoon in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands as a trio of Spoornet "Blue" liveried Class 18E locomotives climb the hill up around the back of Michaelhouse in Balgowan with a mixed load o... (more)

Late afternoon in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands as a trio of Spoornet "Blue" liveried Class 18E locomotives climb the hill up around the back of Michaelhouse in Balgowan with a mixed load o... (more)

PRASA 18-427 climbing up towards Tweedie contra flow with the Trans Natal (Shosholoza Meyl), having just undergone a crew change at Lions River Station. As per Photo ID: 495738, both overnight Joh... (more)

Seven Class 18E locomotives (18-199 / 18-416 / 18-127 / 18-243 / 18-602 / 18-652 / 18-177) are Durban bound as light units headed by 18-199, pictured here passing through Lions River Station.

A beautiful afternoon in Nottingham Road in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands as 18-310 makes her way towards Newcastle or Northern KwaZulu Natal with a load of CAR Wagon empties.

The snow that looked so promising yesterday was today nowhere in sight. Seven Class 18E locomotives (18-199 / 18-416 / 18-127 / 18-243 / 18-602 / 18-652 / 18-177) are Durban bound as light units h... (more)

PRASA 18-401, very recently repainted (started out in the Shosholoza Meyl "purple" livery) and with a noted variation to the colouring around the borders of the cab windows to the other Class 18E ... (more)

The weather office has been predicting snow in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands for the next few days, so a trip to that part of the world was a must, with snow being so rarely seen here. Only very lig... (more)

Class 18E, 18-411, is in charge of this load of various C Type Wagon empties passing through Umlaas Road. The train is probably bound for Newcastle / Northern KwaZulu Natal. These wagons are use... (more)

18-524 is running contra flow while passing through the cutting out of Ashburton Station here, heading Transnet Freight Rail's brand new (the first two of six ordered) imported 160T breakdown cran... (more)

The very neat and well kept Lions River Station, in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, is a scheduled crew change stop for all the PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl passenger trains working both into and out of Du... (more)

An early autumn morning and 18-087 is heading a Durban bound container train through Lidgetton Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands.