This year is the 150th anniversary of railways in South Africa and, to celebrate this historic occassion, Friends of the Rail operated a special passenger train from Pretoria to the mining town of... (more)

This was Friends of the Rail's first train of the season, following the serious derailment of their 15F No 3117 near this spot in June. The first blush of the southern hemisphere spring is eviden... (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)