Just managing to stay ahead of an impressive Karoo storm with 20 007 at Evendowns Railyway Station at 05:30am. Evendowns Station is the station just before Rosmead on the Noupoort side (about 5km... (more)

It is just after sunset as a short load of military vehicles behind 18684 is seen here just after running through the tunnel 4 of the Hexton tunnels which is just over 13km in length with a passin... (more)

35009 approaches Karringmelk with a short freight seen here through a gap between the young black wattle trees.

Class 6E1, E1598 (in her original South African Railway livery and still sporting at least one of her prized and highly collectable brass number plates, outside the workshops of the Umbilo Electri... (more)

18-036 passing through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, with a mixed load (Covered Wagons & Steel). The train is Durban bound and has about 3½ hours of its journey remaining unt... (more)

Hauling lumber to Richards Bay.

An outward bound from Durban cement train, headed by 18-237 / 18-639, is climbing out of Pietermaritzburg through Boughton and towards Cedara. Large volumes of cement are carried on the Natal Mai... (more)

The back end of an empty ore train passes by in the late afternoon with the head end already gone underneath the Bobbejaansberg (baboon mountain) on the right with 15055 at the back.

About 500 meters away from Cato Ridge Station and 18-048 is outward bound from Durban with a load of C Type Wagon empties. The empties were probably bound for one of the coal mining towns in North... (more)

18-066 and a cement train pass the wreck of a Cessna, that a bit earlier had overshot the end of a runway on landing at a private airstrip on a farm on top of the hill to the right of the photo an... (more)

The "Red Mamba" is the nickname given to the train of Butanol tankers that runs from the Sasol Solvents plant in Sasolburg and the name is even stencilled on the tanker wagons used on th... (more)

The double track Durban - Johannesburg main line crosses the Drakensberg mountains from kwaZulu-Natal into Mpumalanga province by way of the Majuba pass, over a distance of 37 km (23 miles). The r... (more)

Unsettled weather and the promise of some snow in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, which unfortunately did not materialise. 18-035 is seen here climbing the hill out of Lions River up towards Tweedie w... (more)

The sun is about to set over the Atlantic ocean as we are treated to one final train for the day. Here a loaded ore train heads down the coast to Saldanha with E9025 at the back.