An early summer evening (18:00hrs) at Bayhead, the largest goods receiving and dispatching yard in Durban, and E8091, in her wonderful old South African Railway livery, with her working mate in â€... (more)
E8048 / E8051 are two examples of their Class (Class 8E Centre Cab Electric Shunting Locomotives) that remain in service as of November 2014. Originally 100 of these locomotives were placed in se... (more)
Class 8E (centre cab electric shunting locomotive), E8056, is shunting a Type 5M Motor Coach around the big Metrorail yards, north of Durban Station. E8056 has made it through her entire working ... (more)
Class 8E centre cab electric shunting locomotives, E8090 & E8054, which entered service in 1983 (100 of them for SAR), are busy doing shunt work at Bayhead Yard, the largest freight yard in Durban... (more)
The working life of E8075 is over, pictured here in the workshops at the Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot in January 2011, as she was being stripped of her working parts to help keep the remaining... (more)
Class 8E, E8077, a centre cab electric shunting locomotive, in her very faded old blue Spoornet livery, works a 10M5 Motor Coach into the main Metrorail Yard just north of Durban Station. Another... (more)
Just after sunrise and the day has not begun yet for Class 8E, E8038, one of the shunting locomotives that works the large Metrorail yard north of Durban Station.
Three of the remaining survivors of the original 100 that entered service between 1983 and 1985 for South African Railways - an additional 7 were built for the mining industry. Class 8E, centre c... (more)
Still in her original South African Railway livery (Red & Whiskers), E8092 is one of the shunting locomotives based at the Durban Metrorail Depot / Yard just north of Durban Station. She was havi... (more)
Just after sunrise at New Durban Yard on a Public Holiday this morning and E8025 is staged with the SWC (Sebenza Weed Chemicals) Train, aka "The Weed Train". Today the train will be working / spr... (more)
SAR Class 8E, E8056, in her original South African Railway livery (Red & Whiskers) is hard at work shunting a Metrorail 5M Motor Coach at New Durban Yard. E8056 is one of a hundred (excluding an ... (more)
