Within a few years of this photograph being taken, this highly scenic railway was closed. In Steam Days the daily pickup train to Bethesda Road Station looked like this. Scan from a 35mm slide.

Viewed from the hills above the line this is a typical South African Railways branch line train.

The crew of Friends of the Rails Berkshire prepares the locomotive for a busy morning of rail photography. Picture taken 15 minutes before sunrise.

A classic steam-era branch line train departs from Cullinan during the annual Friends of the Rail photographic weekend. Note the concrete sleepers that are soon to replace the teak sleepers.

About a half an hour after dawn No 3664 performs a runby for the participants of Friends of the Rails 2013 Photographic weekend. The class 24 was the last class of branch line steam locomotive de... (more)

Seen posing for photographers in her home shed from Steam Days, Reefsteamers beautifully restored Class 15F is seen next to the National Railways of Zimbabwe Class DE2 that belongs to the Sandston... (more)

Currently the oldest working locomotive on the South African 3 foot 6 inch gauge, Reefsteamers workhorse does a runby for photographers during the annual Reesteamers photographic morning. She has... (more)

Friends of the Rails branch line locomotives double-head the Diamond Express excursion train into Cullinan. This working formed part of the annual photographic weekend.

The sun rises on Friends of the Rails stalwart Class 19D at the start of the annual photographic weekend.

An accurate re-enactment of branch-line operations in the days of steam traction. The vehicle behind the locomotive is a vintage milk van, cooled by water from the roof tanks trickling through th... (more)

Friends of the Rails Class 24 pilots sister engine Class 19D No 2650 towards Rayton on the old Pretoria-Delagoa Bay mainline. At the end of our photographic weekend the mixed train and the excurs... (more)

In the gloom of the running shed at Germiston locomotive depot, an engine hand gets to work with the steam cleaning apparatus on a grimy class 15CA. The loco is in for a boiler washout as evidence... (more)

The standard light branch line engine of the SAR on a short mixed train during the recent photographic weekend.

Friends of the Rails Class 19D moves towards the ash pits during a recent photographic weekend.

A mixed goods and passenger train crosses the Kraai River Bridge on the last leg of the journey to Barclay East. Sadly, three years after this picture was taken the line was closed permanently.