Early on a summer morning and 18-146 is Durban bound with a load of containers, having just just exited the Umlaas Road Tunnel/s. The train will cross under the N3 shortly and pass through Umlaas... (more)

The Blue Train on a weekend charter to Durban passing through Umlaas Road, having just made an early morning stop at Pietermaritzburg Station. The train had left Pretoria the previous afternoon fo... (more)

Two 18Es run light up through Umlaas Road station in the afternoon.

A Rovos African Collage train trip behind 2 class 34s passes a neatly kept garden in Reebok in the Southern Cape heading to Cape Town.

18097 and 18698 lead a Rovos train through Kleinstraat in the Karoo heading to Cape Town.

36-214 / 36-218 / Shunter Wagon “Natalspruit” / 36-240 along Maydon Wharf at the start of another busy day’s shunting for them. With reference to Col. André Kritzinger's Wikipedia referen... (more)

Sunrise and the Blue Train, headed by 18-773 / 18-788, is seen here crossing the Pentrich Viaduct as it leaves Pietermaritzburg for the final leg of an overnight journey to Durban. The much antic... (more)

Today we see The Blue Train, heading towards Durban for a weekend Charter, it will head back to Pretoria on Sunday afternoon.

18-210 runs contra flow through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a load of container flats. The old corrugated iron goods shed still stands intact on the goods platform and ... (more)

33515 leads 3 class 35s (GE U15C) on the Voorbaai to Worcester freight passing here through Buffeljagsrivier.

35446 with a shunters wagon behind runs through a S curve just before the destination at De Hoek.

35-066 heads through Berg River with cement empties from Saldanha

A day trip by car up as far as Glencoe in Northern KwaZulu Natal from Durban involves about 6 hours driving time / 600km (return), and is generally a very rushed affair, requiring a ridiculously e... (more)

18-284 is in charge of this outward bound (from Durban) container train, as it crosses the Mooi River (the river has the same name as the predominantly dairy farming area of Mooi River in the KwaZ... (more)

Two class 43s approach with a short load and about to pull into Loop 2 to cross an approaching loaded ore train.