A Durban bound, Type 10M5 Metrorail set, catches the last of the winter afternoon sun as it crosses the Umgababa Bridge on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast.

18-768, one of the latest Class 18E locomotives to be added to the Transnet fleet, is looking really smart in her new red Transnet Freight Rail livery in the morning sun, as she exits the Umlaas R... (more)

The sun just manages to get a ray or two through the cloudy conditions as Saiccor No. 2, ex SAR Class 19D No. 2633, leaves the Exchange Yard at Umkomaas with a load of coal for the short run up to... (more)

Brand new to the Transnet Freight Rail fleet, 18-773 & 18-772 passing through Umlaas Road, as they leave KwaZulu Natal with one of the beautiful and prestigious Blue Train sets, bound for Johannes... (more)

18-183, and a load of containers / container flats, is soaking up the early winter afternoon sun while staged at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Lions River Station is the best... (more)

Metrorail's Emergency / Breakdown Train (MET) aka "ET" staged at New Durban Yard.

Class 34 (200) Diesel Electric, 34-233, is ready to depart from the yard at Glencoe Station for her short afternoon return run back to Dundee (14 km) with just a single Ballast Wagon behind her. ... (more)

18-052 with a Durban bound container train crossing the Pentrich Viaduct (Pietermaritzburg) early this morning.

A short Durban bound Rovos Rail set negotiating the top loop at Boughton on the drop down into Pietermaritzburg. Although Rovos Rail have a fairly extensive collection of vintage locomotives of t... (more)

An older (Type 5M), suburban commuter train, Train No. 0231, operated by Metrorail has just departed Durban Station and is seen here about to head up the KwaZulu Natal North Coast - probably to St... (more)

18-435 / 18-434, the latest two Class 18E locomotives to join the PRASA fleet, had to work / shunt their own train (Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal) down to the yard this morning. Usually the units... (more)

Still in her original South African Railway livery (Red & Whiskers), E8092 is one of the shunting locomotives based at the Durban Metrorail Depot / Yard just north of Durban Station. She was havi... (more)

Just after a rather splendid spring sunrise in Pietermaritzburg this morning, as the overnight, Durban Bound, Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal, with 18-430 / 18-429 in charge cross the Pentrich Viadu... (more)

On the 18th September 2013 a consignment of 24 ex Queensland Rail locomotives arrived by sea in Durban, South Africa. 16 are for RRL Grindrod and 8 for African Rail & Traction Services. 20 will ... (more)

New to the fleet and with their duty finished, 18-432 & 18-433 in their PRASA blue livery are seen here returning to New Durban Yard after their 13 hour journey from Johannesburg to Durban, having... (more)