A Metrorail train from Johannesburg southbound to Vereeniging, approaching Skansdam junction, while a coal train hauled by five class 18E's led by 18-259, wait on the Sentrarand avoiding line for ... (more)

Forty years after delivery of the last GE U26C class 34 diesels to the South African Railways (SAR) in 1973, some of these veterans continue to survive in their original SAR red livery with yellow... (more)

TRAINS CAN KILL.... to make motorists more aware of the dangers of arguing with a train, Transnet Freight Rail has erected large billboards at certain level crossings along the secondary main line... (more)

Loaded fuel tankers for Botswana head down the long grade into the Magaliesburg valley, behind four class 34 GE U26C's, led by no. 34-120 in original SAR red livery.

Having run light engine from Millsite depot in Krugersdorp, this quartet of class 34 GE U26C's has slowed to a crawl at the west end of Tarlton station, to allow the drivers assistant to climb dow... (more)

Five class 34 GE U26C's, led by 34-403 from the 400 series, climb the grade out of Swartruggens, eastbound to Krugersdorp with a 36-wagon train of soda ash from Sua Pan in the neighbouring country... (more)

Transnet Pipelines has a terminal loading facility (out of sight behind this train) at Tarlton on the Krugersdorp - Mafikeng line, from where rail tankers are loaded and dispatched almost daily to... (more)

Early morning sunlight catches three class 34 GE U26C's grinding uphill out of the Magaliesburg valley with empty fuel tankers from the neighbouring country of Botswana. The covered goods wagon be... (more)

A nicely cleaned class 34 in Spoornet blue livery, leads an orange sister from the 400 series on a block load of type CALJ empties, most likely from the PPC cement factory at Slurry, near Mafikeng... (more)

A class 34 is teamed up with a 34-900 (without the saddle filter on the roof), running through the now derelict Trompsburg station, southbound with a 50 wagon container train to Port Elizabeth. Th... (more)

While a nice collection of "puffy whites" accumulates overhead, a 50 wagon container train to Port Elizabeth heads south from Trompsburg towards Springfontein in the late afternoon. The lead locom... (more)

A lonely cow on the hillside seems oblivious to the passing of the Johannesburg - East London "Amatola", as it winds its way out of the Molteno valley with the Bamboesberg visible in the distance.... (more)

A single Class 7E heads up a very late running Johannesburg - East London "Amatola", here running along the low hills south of the town of Bethulie, just visible above the loco in the far distance... (more)

A very late running "Amatola" from Johannesburg is seen east of Providence siding (behind the trees in the middle distance), approaching the R715 road bridge. From Springfontein to East London (47... (more)

Bringing some early morning colour to the southern Free State plains, the Johannesburg to East London "Amatola" is approaching Springfontein, seen from the road bridge at Springfontein North. This... (more)