18-110 is climbing the hill out of Elandslaagte Station with a load of coal and is heading towards Ladysmith. A few graves of young british soldiers, who lost their lives in the Boer War, can be ... (more)

18-524 / 18-267 / 18-052 and a load of containers bound for Kaserne in Johannesburg are about to make a quick stop at Umlaas Road Station.

18-404 is seen here shortly before crossing over the N3 into Cato Ridge Station with an empty Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal. The original units on the train (dead units 3 & 4) had failed on depar... (more)

18-659 / 18-220 / 18-667 are bound for Durban and are crossing the Mooi River Bridge, as they pass through the vibrantly green and lush grazing lands of the dairy producing area of Mooi River in t... (more)

(See photo ID 451287 for the "after"). During July 2013 RRL Grindrod South Africa imported two decommissioned Kiwi Rail / Tranz Rail Class DQ - G12C (DQ6347 / DQ6382) locomotives from New Zealand... (more)

Built by General Motors South Africa as GM-EMD GT18MC, Class 35 Diesels, 35-629 & 35-621, have just left Cato Ridge and are seen here hurriedly running through Camperdown Station contra-flow, as t... (more)

18-055 / 18-667 / 18-229 (dead unit) run contra flow down through the steep gradients of Boughton / Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg with a short load of almost all Maersk containers.

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl in Durban's Class 36 shunter, 36-215, about to couple onto the two Class 18E units (18-404 & 18-415), that had just arrived in Durban from Johannesburg with the Trans Natal... (more)

18-283 assisted by four additional units has just crossed the Mkondeni Viaduct with a long load of 65 Type CAR wagon empties, which were picked up at Cato Ridge a little earlier.

This short train of 21 empty grain wagons (various types) is busy crossing the Mkondeni Viaduct in the section between Ashburton and Pietermaritzburg as it leaves Durban.

With a crossover set up ahead due to track maintenance, 18-266 has slowed to a crawl with this load of predominantly cement wagons and a few empty STJ (Timber) wagons at the back. The train is pi... (more)

Two Class 6E1 units, headed by E1584, leave Bayhead (the biggest and busiest yard in Durban), for the short run back to their depot at Wentworth, having just cut off their load. E1584, has subseq... (more)

Just after sunrise on a chilly winter morning, as 18-297 / 18-119 / 18-169 cross the little bridge out of Mooi River in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands as they head towards Hidcote with a load of conta... (more)

As a brand new Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-645, is pictured here in the workshops at the Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot, having just emerged from the Class 6E1 / Class 18E upgrade program ... (more)

18-636 / 18-161 / 18-639 / 18-263 cross over the Mooi River bridge as they start to leave the KwaZulu Natal Midlands behind them with a load of Jet Fuel bound for Johannesburg / Gauteng.