On a blue sky winter morning with the temperature below freezing, a quartet of clean 18E's hauling a 65-wagon train of type CAR empties (dubbed a "python"), is beginning the long climb u... (more)

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)

On a blue sky winter morning with the temperature below freezing, the occupants of this rural homestead were yet to venture outside, while in the background a quartet of 18E's pass through Ingogo ... (more)

On a typical blue sky winter day, three 18E's, with a fourth unit dead-in-tow, are approaching the N11 highway bridge near Ingogo with a train of empty jet fuel tankers from Johannesburg to Durban... (more)

A container train with the usual power of three 18E's up front, is on its way inland from Durban to Johannesburg, passing through the rural countryside around Ingogo as it tackles the long climb o... (more)

A train of empty jet fuel tankers on its way from Johannesburg to Durban, is nearing the bottom of Majuba pass between Charlestown and Ingogo, passing through dry winter countryside blackened by a... (more)

Not long after sunrise, a southbound 50-wagon container train from Johannesburg to Durban has completed its descent of the Majuba pass over the Drakensberg mountains between Charlestown and Ingogo... (more)

18255 and two mates all in Spoornet blue lead containers up to Johannesburg through Beacon Hill.

18-052, who was probably at the time, the dirtiest and most faded of her class that I had seen and much in need of a new paint job, starts the climb away from Frere Station up towards Chieveley an... (more)

Class 18E Series 1, 18-506, is seen here passing through Colenso with a variety of empty grain wagon types, as she heads towards Danskraal / Ladysmith for her next scheduled stop (Crew Change), ab... (more)

18793 speeds over a level crossing outside Colenso leading containers down to Durban.

18-007 aka "Bond" heads a container train out of KwaZulu Natal through Colenso. The train will make a stop at Danskraal / Ladysmith for a crew change, before continuing on to Kaserne in... (more)

A perfect summer afternoon spent watching trains running up and down Majuba Pass, came to an end in the best possible way, with this downhill train of 65 type CAR wagons, headed up by five clean 1... (more)

Container trains crossing at Elandslaagte. 18-272 and her load of containers are bound for Kaserne in Johannesburg, having just undergone a crew change at Danskraal / Ladysmith (about 12km's earl... (more)

18349 with 4 mates struggle up the climb out of Elandslaagte with a load of coal behind.