Late on a hot summer afternoon, the setting sun catches the last Sunday departure of the Johannesburg - Cape Town "Premier Classe", as it observes a speed restriction just south of Daleside statio... (more)

On a hot summer afternoon, a thunderstorm is building up over the Gauteng highveld, as this class 36 GE shunter in Spoornet orange livery, hauls a work train south towards Meyerton, after unloadin... (more)

160 class 5E Bo-Bo electric locomotives were built for the South African Railways (SAR) between 1955 and 1959. In 2011 the last operational member of the class was part of Impala Platinum's fleet ... (more)

Impala Platinum is the worlds second largest platinum mine and operates an extensive electrified (3000v DC) rail system serving 14 shafts. After a brief midday summer thunderstorm soaked the area,... (more)

A Metrorail class 5M2A EMU heads downgrade through Fountains valley towards Pretoria. On the adjacent track a pair of class 36 shunters (GE SG10B) wait for clearance to cross over and follow the E... (more)

A pair of class 6E1's, in Spoornet orange livery, are heading south towards Vereeniging, running light engine and hauling two more dead loco's of the same class.

A Metrorail train from Johannesburg southbound to Vereeniging, approaching Skansdam junction, while a coal train hauled by five class 18E's led by 18-259, wait on the Sentrarand avoiding line for ... (more)

Forty years after delivery of the last GE U26C class 34 diesels to the South African Railways (SAR) in 1973, some of these veterans continue to survive in their original SAR red livery with yellow... (more)

TRAINS CAN KILL.... to make motorists more aware of the dangers of arguing with a train, Transnet Freight Rail has erected large billboards at certain level crossings along the secondary main line... (more)

Loaded fuel tankers for Botswana head down the long grade into the Magaliesburg valley, behind four class 34 GE U26C's, led by no. 34-120 in original SAR red livery.

Having run light engine from Millsite depot in Krugersdorp, this quartet of class 34 GE U26C's has slowed to a crawl at the west end of Tarlton station, to allow the drivers assistant to climb dow... (more)

Five class 34 GE U26C's, led by 34-403 from the 400 series, climb the grade out of Swartruggens, eastbound to Krugersdorp with a 36-wagon train of soda ash from Sua Pan in the neighbouring country... (more)

Transnet Pipelines has a terminal loading facility (out of sight behind this train) at Tarlton on the Krugersdorp - Mafikeng line, from where rail tankers are loaded and dispatched almost daily to... (more)

Early morning sunlight catches three class 34 GE U26C's grinding uphill out of the Magaliesburg valley with empty fuel tankers from the neighbouring country of Botswana. The covered goods wagon be... (more)

A nicely cleaned class 34 in Spoornet blue livery, leads an orange sister from the 400 series on a block load of type CALJ empties, most likely from the PPC cement factory at Slurry, near Mafikeng... (more)