Section Manager and senior Umbilo Depot driver, Mr. Chris Schutte and the Blue Train are close to their destination now, as they pass under the Congella Road bridge. The train will be in Durban fo... (more)
Day 3 of off loading! Ex Queensland Railway, 2250 Class, No. 2259. Transnet Freight Rail imported 34 ex Queensland Railway locomotives. They arrived in Durban on the BBC Ohio and off loading bega... (more)
Day 1 of off loading! Wet, miserable and very smelly (fermenting / rotting fish meal) conditions for the unloading of these ex Queensland Railway diesel locomotives! Transnet Freight Rail importe... (more)
Class 6E1 Series 3, E1394, built in 1972/3, is still at the yard in Durban with an uncertain future. A possible conversion / upgrade to Class 18E can be ruled out now, as the conversion programme... (more)
Six (3 pairings) of the twenty eight strong fleet of PRASA Class 18E electric locomotives staged under the Argyle Road Bridge at the yard in Durban. Paired together are 18-402 / 18-405 (purple Sho... (more)