18-066 / 18-055 / 18-523, from the Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot in Durban, have just arrived at Cato Ridge to pick up empty CAR Wagons to take them up to one of the coal towns in Northern KwaZ... (more)

18-613 with an empty Python (CAR Wagons) is about to cross the steel bridge out of Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. The train is bound for one of the Northern Natal coal towns a... (more)

Class 18E, 18-506, is in charge of this Durban bound (Kings Rest) container train. Pictured here at Willow Farm Crossing in Umlaas Road, the train is being crossed over to run contra flow down to... (more)

A beautiful winter morning as 18-317 brings her cement train right handed into Dargle Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, having just made the climb up from Lions River. There is however no ro... (more)

Early on a winter morning as 18-067 bites down hard into the cambered left hand curve out of Ashburton Station with a shortish mixed train. The train was en-route to Joannesburg, with a scheduled... (more)

18-317, with her refreshed face, has made the climb up out of Pietermaritzburg to the top of Boughton with her bulk load of cement. The line levels out briefly now, before the climb up to Cedara ... (more)

A very faded 18-048 (since been repainted) is outward bound from Durban with a load of CAR Type Wagon empties passing through Balgowan. The empties were probably bound for one of the coal mining t... (more)

Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-603, is in charge of this empty Python that is seen here passing through Umlaas Road having just left Cato Ridge. The train is headed for the coalfields of North... (more)

Early on a beautiful winter morning and 18-270 is seen here at the head of this tanker train as it exits Ashburton Station. The train would have departed Durban approximately 2 hours earlier and ... (more)

While a typical afternoon thunderstorm brews, Class 18E locomotives (18-416 in the red Transnet Freight Rail Livery) with their trains stand baking in the extreme Northern KwaZulu Natal heat at Da... (more)

Durban bound trains headed from left to right by 18-416, 18-112 and 18-224 at Danskraal in Ladysmith, probably awaiting crews. The Natal Main Line sees a lot of traffic on it with varied loads in... (more)

Class 18E electric locomotives staged under the Argyle Road Bridge at the yard in Durban. Paired together are 18-402 / 18-405 (purple Shosholoza Meyl livery), 18-433 / 18-425 (PRASA blue livery) a... (more)

The early morning crew change on the overnight Johannesburg to Durban Trans Natal is taking place at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. About 3½ hours remain of the journey to Du... (more)

These four Class 18E electric units (18-505 with the end of train marker) have just arrived at Estcourt Station. They had just made the trip through to Escourt from Danskraal / Ladysmith with tra... (more)

A very patchy and faded 18-082, assisted by 18-667 and 18-125, have almost completed the long climb up from Lions River, through Dargle, Lidgetton and Balgowan to Nottingham Road in the KwaZulu Na... (more)