A Jet Fuel train heads up country from the fuel refineries on a crisp Autumn afternoon.

Some beautiful light late on a scorchingly hot autumn afternoon and the crew are certainly feeling the heat and uncomfortable humidity! Class 18E Series 1 locomotive, 18-281, with a load of conta... (more)

Class 18E, 18-506, is in charge of this Durban bound (Kings Rest) container train. Pictured here at Willow Farm Crossing in Umlaas Road, the train is being crossed over to run contra flow down to... (more)

Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-603, is in charge of this empty Python that is seen here passing through Umlaas Road having just left Cato Ridge. The train is headed for the coalfields of North... (more)

A jet fuel train, with 18-237 at the front, is passing through Umlaas Road. The train departed from Durban about 1¾ hours earlier and is bound for Johannesburg. The transportation by rail of je... (more)

It's really late in the afternoon now as 18-615 / 18-023 / 18-512 and a load of containers bound for Kaserne in Johannesburg pass through Umlaas Road. The train had been held up at Shongweni (alo... (more)

Willows Farm Crossing in Umlaas Road and 18-246 is at the head of this "Python" (65 x C Type Wagons) with a load of coal for Cato Ridge from Northern KwaZulu Natal. These "Pythons&... (more)

Early on a summer morning and 18-146 is Durban bound with a load of containers, having just just exited the Umlaas Road Tunnel/s. The train will cross under the N3 shortly and pass through Umlaas... (more)

The Blue Train on a weekend charter to Durban passing through Umlaas Road, having just made an early morning stop at Pietermaritzburg Station. The train had left Pretoria the previous afternoon fo... (more)

Today we see The Blue Train, heading towards Durban for a weekend Charter, it will head back to Pretoria on Sunday afternoon.

Just after sunrise, as 18-414 and an overnight passenger service from Johannesburg to Durban, known as the "Trans Natal", is at the top of the inviting straight for the run down to Campe... (more)

It's late on a beautiful autumn afternoon as 18-157, with a short container load and outward bound from Durban, passes over Willow Farm Crossing in Umlaas Road. The train would have departed Durb... (more)

Pushing is what she does now! E1101 is a significantly refurbished (2007) Class 5E1 Series 5 electric unit, originally built in 1966. She and her sister, E1102, are now used by Transnet Freight ... (more)

18-167 / 18-627 / 18-513 are passing through Umlaas Road as they leave Durban with a short(ish) tanker train. Chicken / poultry farms abound in this area, which has a large farm on both sides of ... (more)

18-103 & 18-034 working as light units through Umlaas Road (probably on their way to Masons Mill in Pietermaritzburg to pick up a load) are doing their best to stay ahead of the unseasonal storm t... (more)