Passing through Cato Ridge, 18-429 / 18-412 head Shosholoza Meyl's recently reintroduced "Daylight Sitter" service between Durban and Johannesburg. The train departs Durban Station at 07:25 on a ... (more)

Ex SAR Class 15F No. 3046 looks stunning with the early morning sun on her as she begins her roll forward.

Sunrise and a new lease on life for these vintage (1965/66) diesel locomotives, originally designed & built by General Electric as model GE U20C. Ex SAR (South African Railway) / Transnet Freight ... (more)

Just after sunrise on a chilly Johannesburg winter morning, as this super line up of marvellous ex SAR Steam Locomotives (all in steam) hold themselves ready for an arranged early morning photo se... (more)

18-298 with a load of empty DJ Wagons passing through Beacon Hill bound for Ladysmith.

18-524 heads Transnet Freight Rail's first two (six ordered) imported 160T breakdown cranes (built by Kirow - Germany), No. 601 and No. 602 from Durban up to Johannesburg.

Winter trackside veld fires aplenty as 18-646 leaves Cato Ridge and climbs up out of the dip towards Camperdown with a load of empty CAR (Ore) Wagons.

18-230 / 18-180 running over some freshly ballasted track through Umlaas Road, with a mixed load of CAR / CBR / CFR (Ore) empties.

18-658 bites down hard into the cambered track as she works her load of tanker wagons down grade through a pretty tight curve in the Hammarsdale area en-route to Durban.

18-218 / 18-045 run light units past the old signal box at Umlaas Road Station en-route to Masons Mill / Pietermaritzburg.

Unfortunately the weather did not play along for this rare occasion when two of PRASA's brand new Class 18E main line passenger haulers, 18-431 & 18-430, visited Kelso on the KwaZulu Natal South C... (more)

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl Class 36 shunter (still in "blue" Spoornet livery), 36-251, shunts one of the overnight Johannesburg to Durban Premier Classe sets down to New Durban Yard after its arrival... (more)

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl Class 18E locomotives at New Durban Yard early this morning. 18-431 / 18-430 (PRASA Blue livery) alongside 18-402 / 18-413 (Shosholoza Meyl Purple livery). 18-431 is the ... (more)

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl Class 18E locomotives at New Durban Yard early this morning. Paired at the yard and having just arrived in Durban were 18-427 / 18-424 & 18-431 / 18-430 (PRASA Blue livery... (more)

18-219 / 18-306 / 18-177 passing through the remains of Beacon Hill Station (just outside Estcourt) with a Durban bound grain train.