The starter signal is pulled off and Shosholoza Meyl's "Tourism" from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg, also known as the "Algoa", pulls out of Heuningspruit on the Free State main line after being ... (more)

Train 47238, a holiday extra from East London, is northbound to Johannesburg on the Free State main line, in beautiful early morning light, behind class 6E1 E1454. The passenger coaches are still ... (more)

Shosholoza Meyl's 1st & 2nd class "Tourism" from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg, also known as the "Algoa", is seen northbound at Westleigh on the Free State main line. This is one of the few stat... (more)

In beautiful early morning light, class 6E1 E1454 heads north out of Heuningspruit on the Free State main line, working train 47238 from East London to Johannesburg, one of the many holiday extras... (more)

Photographed from the campus of the University of South Africa (UNISA), Metrorail train 9103 leaves Pretoria station on a local service that will take it through the eastern suburbs of Pretoria to... (more)

Metrorail train 0607 from Johannesburg is seen heading down the grade from Fountains into Pretoria. The construction site on the hillside ahead of the train is for the bridge that will carry the s... (more)

The class 18E Bo-Bo 3kV electrics are being rebuilt from class 6E1's and the latest batch have been recently outshopped in the new Transnet Freight Rail livery. 18-607, 18-603 and 18-606 are waiti... (more)

A class 8E heavy shunting locomotive, in original SAR red livery, awaiting repairs at Transnet Rail Engineering's Koedoespoort workshops, along with a couple of class 18E's in Spoornet blue. The ... (more)

Metrorail train 0414 (New Canada - Oberholzer) enters the platform loop at Suurbekom station, while the Cape Town - Johannesburg "Premier Classe", behind a pair of class 6E1's, waits on the main l... (more)

Over the weekend of 14/15 November, construction work on the N1 freeway bridge over the railway between Centurion and Irene stations, necessitated the overhead power supply being shut off. Class 3... (more)

Over the weekend of 14/15 November, construction took place on the N1 freeway bridge over the railway between Centurion and Irene stations, necessitating the overhead power supply being shut off. ... (more)

For many years this Cowans Sheldon 10 ton steam crane worked at South African Railways' Koedoespoort workshops. Today the workshops belong to Transnet Rail Engineering and the crane is a museum pi... (more)

On a beautiful early summer afternoon, these class 18E's working a northbound container train to Pretoria, have been shut down at Irene station, after their crew was suspended for passing a red si... (more)

Barely two minutes after the herd of cattle had cleared the tracks (photo ID 302972), Class 34's 34-089 & 34-121 rolled through Battery siding with an eastbound container train, headed for Waterva... (more)

Another day in Africa......I arrived at Battery siding to photograph the eastbound container train I had been chasing, only to find this herd of Nguni cattle about to cross the tracks! The herders... (more)