The Blue Train awaits her new crew on the first crew change stage of her 24 hour journey at a crispy cold Worcester station situated in the Boland region of the Western Cape.

18706 approaches Hermon with a grain train heading north in the afternoon.

An empty ore train runs around Lamberts Bay on the West Coast with 15023 in the lead.

To help ease their motive power shortage while orders for new locomotives are filled, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has hired a number of RRL Grindrod's type RL30SCC-3 diesels, built at the Grindrod... (more)

In service shunting locomotives at rest in three liveries! Just after sunrise on a Sunday morning in one of the yards at Bayhead in Durban and the day has not yet begun for Class 8E (Electric) and... (more)

Shunters at rest! Just after sunrise on a Sunday morning along Maydon Wharf in Durban and the day has not yet begun for Class 36 diesel shunting locomotives 36-237 / 36-213 / 36-220 / 36-227 / 36-... (more)

A tanker train heading inland from Durban, seen here by Mooi River.

E8048 / E8051 are two examples of their Class (Class 8E Centre Cab Electric Shunting Locomotives) that remain in service as of November 2014. Originally 100 of these locomotives were placed in se... (more)

The first two Class 21 electric locomotives arrived by ship in Durban from China on the 11th December 2014. 21 001 & 21 002 were off loaded at Maydon Wharf and taken across to the Umbilo Electric... (more)

Early morning, on a hot day, three Class 18E (Series 2) locomotives wait for a new crew on a siding near Redan. December is the rainy season in this part if the world and the first rains have alre... (more)

34902 approaches Outeniqua siding with Rovos behind having left George not to long ago, in the distance above the bridge is Georg airport.

Slowly but surely repaints into the red TFR (Transnet Freight Rail) livery of the older members of the locomotive fleet are taking place. 36-238 is a recent example of this, a Class 36 Diesel Shu... (more)

In 1965/66, the South African Railways (SAR) imported sixty five type U20C diesels from General Electric in the USA. These veteran locomotives have now all been withdrawn from service, but some ha... (more)

The original contract for the Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) GE C30-ACi was for 143 locomotives. It turned out that after the completion of the 143, a further 15 locomotives were built for CFM Mozamb... (more)

A pair of class 43's (GE C30-ACi) sitting outside the workshops at Transnet Engineering's Koedoespoort works in Pretoria. On the left is 43 011, one of the first loco's built in 2011, back at Koe... (more)