Amid very unsettled hazy / smoggy conditions, 18-655 is about to pass under the Congella Road steel bridge with one of the luxury Blue Train sets, which is visiting Durban this weekend on a Vodaco... (more)

Class 37 Diesels, 37-033 & 37-075 have just arrived with Transnet's Wentworth based Breakdown Train at the scene of yesterday's Metrorail derailment at A Yard just north of Durban Station, to clea... (more)

The Metrorail Yard just north of Durban Station. The photo was taken from the public viewing deck on top of the arch over the Moses Mabhida Soccer Stadium (106 meters above ground level). A set o... (more)

Plinthed on the main concourse of Durban Station is the little 0-4-0 locomotive "Natal", the locomotive that started it all off in South Africa in 1860. Col André Kritzinger, a fellow South Afri... (more)

Just after sunrise as PRASA liveried Class 18E locomotives, 18-425 and 18-423, pass through Balgowan Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a Durban bound Premier Classe set. Luckily the trai... (more)

One of the new and very elusive KZN Business Express sets being moved for staging purposes into the Metrorail Yard just north of Durban Station by yard shunter, Class 36 (212). The KZN Business E... (more)

This short (8 coach) Type 10M5 Metrorail set bound for Cato Ridge was lucky to have missed the worst of this still burning trackside grass fire (very typical during the dry winter months) as it pa... (more)

18-006 / 18-209 / 18-278 pass through Cliffdale as they head out of Durban / KwaZulu Natal with a mixed tanker train. The empty "spacer" wagons (in this case grain wagons) are intersper... (more)

The last of the winter afternoon sun, as this 12 coach 10M5 Metrorail set bound for Cato Ridge from Durban winds its way through Cliffdale, running about 35 minutes late due to single line working... (more)

18-646 / 18-623 / 18-657 / 18-350 / 18-626 arriving at Cato Ridge Station as light units. They will leave Cato Ridge with a load of 65 X C Type Wagon (CAR / CBR / CFR) empties, as pictured on the... (more)

It's a typical late winter afternoon in Balgowan in the Midlands, as 18-645 heads a 40 wagon cement train out of KwaZulu Natal up around the side of Michaelhouse - a prestigious boys school and fa... (more)

A very unusual train consist! Pictured here while stopped at Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg, with this special pantograph recovery train, is Class 5E1 Series 5 locomotive, E1102 (originally... (more)

With the Indian Ocean providing the backdrop, the race to Durban from Umkomaas was never one that the Isolde, a Liberian registered container ship (top left of photo), was going to win. The older... (more)

Class 37 Diesels, 37-054 / 37-084 / 37-025, built by General Motors South Africa during 1981/82 as GM-EMD GT26M2C, leave Umkomaas with a load of empty Timber (Type STJ) Wagons across the Umkomaas ... (more)

Class 37 Diesels, 37-054 / 37-084 / 37-025, built by General Motors South Africa during 1981/82 as GM-EMD GT26M2C, leave Umkomaas with a load of empty Timber (Type STJ) Wagons across the Umkomaas ... (more)