The biggest train on the Natal Main Line, known as the "Python" - 65 X CAR Wagons, which are used to transport coal / manganese. This train is a regular and is always headed by five Class 18E uni... (more)

With just the dying embers of the autumn afternoon’s sun remaining, and running ahead of schedule at 17:12hrs, 18-434 & 18-435 are seen here negotiating the difficult section through the top of ... (more)

A local herdsman looks on, while his Nguni cattle graze behind him out of shot, as Shosholoza Meyl's "Daylight Sitter" service to Johannesburg on a Sunday, with 18-415 / 18-422 in charge, passes b... (more)

Class 18E Series 2, 18-642, heads empty Car Carrier Wagons out of Pietermaritzburg across the Pentrich Viaduct at sunrise this morning. The train is bound for Durban. The capacity of the transpo... (more)

Early morning and with a bit of mist still hanging in the air, this is Class 18E, 18-263, in charge of this empty Car Train, as it passes through Pentrich Station in Pietermaritzburg, bound for Du... (more)

The Natal Main Line was pretty busy early this morning. This is Class 18E, 18-512, at the head of this Durban bound container train, as it passes through Pentrich Station in Pietermaritzburg. Th... (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)

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)

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)

An early winter morning, as Class 6E1, E1659, one of only a handful of her class that made it into the "Purple" Shosholoza Meyl livery, is seen here unravelling from the top balloon at Boughton wi... (more)

The only remaining Class 6E1 in Durban, E1394, is seen passing through the very dry and arid Ashburton Station area on an extremely hot and humid summer morning. Behind her and in a new livery is... (more)

18-069 passes over the recently (as in a couple of hours prior) reballasted section (the whitest ballast stones I've ever seen) through Pentrich Station with empty CAR Wagons (Ore).

18-646 is in charge of this empty "Python" - 65 X CAR (Ore) Wagons, seen here crossing the Pentrich Viaduct in Pietermaritzburg en-route to Newcastle.

Short mixed loads are very seldom seen on the Natal Main Line. This is 18-055, crossing the Pentrich Viaduct and bound for Durban, with a short mixed load - including a steel coil, a timber wagon... (more)