Regular industrial working steam in 2014! Ex South African Railways Class 19D (4-8-2), No. 2767, now Saiccor No.3, starts her roll forward, desperately trying to avoid any excessive wheel slip, w... (more)
Ex South African Railway Class 19D (4-8-2) No. 2685 "Wesley", now with Umgeni Steam Railway (KZN Steam Preservation Group) is about to start the steep climb out of the very green and leafy suburb ... (more)
Saiccor No. 1, ex South African Railway Class 19D (4-8-2), No. 2697, working down the bottom end of the Timber Exchange Yard at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast. No. 2697 was built by Bo... (more)
Ex South African Railways Class 19D, No. 2669, is seen here busy running around her train at Donnybrook Station on one of her 2011 Aloe Festival Specials from Creighton early on a chilly winter mo... (more)
Ex South African Railways Class 19D, No. 2669, is seen here busy running around at Riverside Station on one of her 2011 Aloe Festival Specials from Creighton on a chilly and dry winter afternoon. ... (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)
The last working steam operations (non preservation) in South Africa. Saiccor No. 3 (Ex SAR Class 19D No. 2767) - Leaving the Saiccor Exchange Yard at Umkomaas with a load of timber for the short... (more)
The last of actual (non preservation) working steam operations in South Africa is carried out at the Saiccor Paper Mill at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast. This is Saiccor No. 1 working... (more)
Friends of the Rail's ex- SAR class 19D 4-8-2 does some shunting at their Capital Park depot, early on a beautiful cold and sunny winter morning.
Friends of the Rail's driver Tony Atwell cleans the fire of No.2650, as preparation for working a passenger train around Pretoria later in the day.
On a cold and sunny winter morning, No.2650 is silhouetted against the rising sun, as it storms out of Friends of the Rail's yard at Capital Park with a short passenger train of swing door suburba... (more)
An Alicedale train nears Grahamstown station. January 1984.
A special from Port Elizabeth to Kynsna, is on the Kliplaat-Oudtshoorn stretch - July 1983. See 323583 for a shot taken right after this one.
An Oudtshoorn-bound special in July 1983, inside Toorwaterpoort, a huge cleft (and photographer's paradise) in the Swartberg Mountains.
An Oudtshoorn-bound special in July 1983.
