Class 18E, 18-119, fresh out the paint shops in her stunning red Transnet Freight Rail livery, is seen here passing through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a load of tanker ... (more)

A far from common railway scene in 2014! This is the Saiccor Exchange Yard at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast as pictured on the 10th April 2014, with ex South African Railway Class 19D... (more)

Regular industrial working steam in 2014! Ex South African Railways Class 19D (4-8-2), No. 2767, now Saiccor No.3, starts her roll forward, desperately trying to avoid any excessive wheel slip, w... (more)

Semaphore signals continue to be operational at four stations on the Free State main line. At the south end of Rooiwal station, a pair of 6E1's wearing the orange livery of their previous owner (S... (more)

A late running local freight from Kroonstad to Sasolburg provided this rare opportunity to capture a freight at my favourite location north of Rooiwal station, passing the outer home and distant s... (more)

Ex South African Railway Class 19D (4-8-2) No. 2685 "Wesley", now with Umgeni Steam Railway (KZN Steam Preservation Group) is about to start the steep climb out of the very green and leafy suburb ... (more)

Saiccor No. 1, ex South African Railway Class 19D (4-8-2), No. 2697, working down the bottom end of the Timber Exchange Yard at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast. No. 2697 was built by Bo... (more)

A local freight from Kroonstad to Sasolburg is entering one of the passing loops at Heuningspruit, threading its way between the still operational semaphore signals for southbound trains. The frei... (more)

A perfect summer afternoon spent watching trains running up and down Majuba Pass, came to an end in the best possible way, with this downhill train of 65 type CAR wagons, headed up by five clean 1... (more)

With just the dying embers of the autumn afternoon’s sun remaining, and running ahead of schedule at 17:12hrs, 18-434 & 18-435 are seen here negotiating the difficult section through the top of ... (more)

The Johannesburg - Durban daylight approaching Rosetta late afternoon. This is the second to last run before its cancelled in April.

It's a hot summer's day in the Western Cape as evidenced by the open door in the front of the locomotive. 18E 693 hauls the weed-killing train train (travelling at the required fixed 30km/h) up th... (more)

Ex South African Railways Class 19D, No. 2669, is seen here busy running around her train at Donnybrook Station on one of her 2011 Aloe Festival Specials from Creighton early on a chilly winter mo... (more)

During the late 1970's the most well known locomotive based at Voorbaai depot (Mossel Bay) was this class GMAM 4-8-2 + 2-8-4 garratt, unofficially named "Amin" after Idi Amin, the infamous preside... (more)

Germiston-based class 15CA No.2820 (North British Locomotive Co. / 1928) is working train 1220, the Denver pick-up, against a backdrop of gold mine dumps between Driehoek and Geldenhuis. This was ... (more)