What you see here is the sad remains of part of what was once a busy and vibrant operation of the South African Railways, and in later years Alfred County Railway and the Banana Express - the two ... (more)

Friends of the Rail 19D 4-8-2 2650 has her fire cleaned before departing for their annual photo weekend charter.

Friends of the Rail 19D 4-8-2 2650 leaves the ashpits at Capital Park before departing for their annual photo weekend charter.

This is ex South African Railway Class 12AR, No. 1535, just after sunrise on a chilly winter morning, at the Germiston (Johannesburg) yard / HQ of Reefsteamers, a steam preservation group. No. 153... (more)

Sunrise on a chilly Johannesburg winter morning, as ex South African Railway Class GMAM, No. 4079 (left), makes a stop alongside the water column to take on water and join this fine line up of mar... (more)

Atlantic Rail's class 16DA waits for a Metro train to depart for it to run around the other Metro set in the back for the trip back to Cape Town.

Early morning and the sunrise is still a good ½ hour away as ex South African Railway Class 15F, No. 3046 and SAR Class 25NC, No. 3472, hold themselves ready for an arranged photo shoot at the Ge... (more)

Very early on a chilly winter morning as photographers set up for an arranged photo shoot, this is ex South African Railway Class 15F, No. 3046, at the Germiston (Johannesburg) yard / HQ of Reefst... (more)

This is ex South African Railway Class 12AR, No. 1535, shortly before sunrise on a chilly winter morning at the Germiston (Johannesburg) yard / HQ of Reefsteamers, a steam preservation group. No... (more)

Tragically, on June 21st 2010, Friends of the Rail's newly restored class 15F No 3117, derailed just a few meters short of her destination of Cullinan. The cause of the derailment was due to sleep... (more)

Reefsteamers' class 12AR and 15F double-head on a photographic special at the crack-of-dawn.

No 119 rolls into Gamtoos Junction with a photographers' special

NG15 No. 119 (Built Henschel 1938) performs a photo run-past on the Geoff's Trains 2009 Apple Express railtour

Umgeni Steam Railway's 19D "Wesley" about to pass through the neglected Botha's Hill Station on a bright winters day,

Class 7 locomotive of the type used on the first construction train to visit Riversdal on 3 December 1903 when the railway line between Ashton and Mossel Bay was built for the old NCCR company.