Train No. 0761, a Type 10M5 suburban commuter set operated by PRASA / Metrorail, has just departed Rossburgh Station. The train was on all stops from Kelso Station on the KwaZulu Natal South Coas... (more)

An intricate and carefully choreographed procedure setting the locomotives down during their ship to shore transfer. With rain about, Class 20E, 20 001 the class leader, is in the slings and abou... (more)

With the rain starting to fall Class 20E, 20 001 the class leader, comes out the hold in the slings and is about to be placed on South African soil for the first time via the floating crane Indlov... (more)

Train No. 1041 (Set M6), a Type 10M5 suburban commuter set operated by PRASA / Metrorail, is about to pass under the Congella Road bridge and make a stop at Congella Station. The train originated... (more)

The wrecked remains of Class 14E1, 14-102, at De Aar Depot. The locomotive was working the Blue Train and was involved in a head-on collision with the Trans Karoo (another passenger train) at Dee... (more)

Class 18E locomotives, 18-114 / 18-661 / 18-521, are heading a grain train through Lions River up towards Dargle in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. On a day that saw a number of grain trains exiting ... (more)

Class 34, 34-113 (GE U26C - built in 1973), at De Aar, following heavy repairs and a livery repaint at Beaconsfield in Kimberley in the Northern Cape. In this photo 34-113 was being dead hauled b... (more)

Some fresh paint at the dawning of a new day. The first two of this class to be put into the PRASA "blue" livery. E1603 (with E1667 behind) are Class 6E1 Series 5 electric locomotives, t... (more)

This Johannesburg bound container train, headed by 18-258, is climbing up towards Cato Ridge through Westermyer. having just passed through Hammarsdale and Georgedale. The train originated in Dur... (more)

Winter in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands and PRASA Class 18E, 18-429, has just exited the Lidgetton Tunnels and is dropping down towards Lidgetton Station with a Daylight Sitter service to Johannesbur... (more)

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)

PRASA Class 18E locomotives, 18-412 and 18-409 (in the purple Shosholoza Meyl livery), have just cut off their overnight passenger train from Johannesburg and are returning to their staging locati... (more)

A miserable Sunday afternoon, with a few weak filtered rays of sunlight just managing to get through, as the Blue Train headed by 20 032 and 20 031 pass over the Cliffdale Crossing. The train was... (more)

Contra flow working. 18-272 is heading this Johannesburg bound grain train into Tweedie Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Partial line occupation for maintenance resulted in trains having t... (more)

The driver of Class 6E1, E1513 (with E1531 & E1488), is about to receive authority to leave one of the Bayhead Yards in Durban with a mixed load of coal and timber wagon empties for Empangeni / Ri... (more)