Just after sunrise at New Durban Yard on a Public Holiday this morning and E8025 is staged with the SWC (Sebenza Weed Chemicals) Train, aka "The Weed Train". Today the train will be working / spr... (more)

18-328 & the Blue Train, South Africa's premier and world renowned long distance passenger train, was an extremely welcome visitor to Durban, KwaZulu Natal this weekend. She is pictured here pass... (more)

Three newly refurbished RRL Grindrod Diesel Locomotives, bound for Ncala – Mozambique, have just been loaded onto Transnet's Floating Crane "Indlovu Durban". The vessel collecting them for their... (more)

Carefully putting RRL 22-02 down on the open deck. Three newly refurbished RRL Grindrod Diesel Locomotives being readied for their journey to Ncala - Mozambique by sea. This is Ex Kiwi Rail DQ634... (more)

Three newly refurbished RRL Grindrod Diesel Locomotives being readied for their journey to Ncala - Mozambique by sea. This is Ex Kiwi Rail DQ6382, now RRL 22-01, being craned onto Transnet's Float... (more)

(See photo ID 490300 for the "before"). Three newly refurbished RRL Grindrod Diesel Locomotives being readied for their journey to Ncala - Mozambique by sea. This is the first of the three, Ex K... (more)

An OR Tambo International Airport bound Gautrain set has just made a stop in the very theatrical setting of Sandton Station (underground).

Early on a winter morning and with snow from the previous week's snowfall still visible on the mountain tops, 18-405 heads the overnight, Durban bound, Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal down from Darg... (more)

Just after sunrise, and the morning mist is still burning off, as 18-129 with a load of containers passes through Lions River in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. This train still has about 3 hours of ... (more)

The first one off on an early miserable winter morning. A consignment of ex QR National locomotives were shipped to South Africa in June 2012 for various rail companies. This is 1775D being crane... (more)

18-267 with a load of containers bound for Johannesburg is seen here passing through Umlaas Road.

18-619 is climbing out of Lions River up towards Tweedie with CAR Wagons (loaded with coal) and bound for Cato Ridge.

18-131 with a Durban bound container train cautiously negotiating the top loop of Boughton, before the next stage of the drop down into Pietermaritzburg. The section between Cedara and Pietermari... (more)

18-329 has just crossed the Mkondeni Viaduct on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg with a Johannesburg bound Container / Container Flat train. Considering the chaos and carnage created by truckers ... (more)

Local farm workers attend to repairs to their corrugated iron roof, as 18-041 climbs up the hill (contra flow) out of Lions River towards Tweedie in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a load of coal.... (more)