No 119 rolls into Gamtoos Junction with a photographers' special

A grain train weaves it's way around the Boughton Balloon towards Pietermaritzburg.

The Blue train heads home after a weekend in Durban

E9006 assists at the back of an empty ore train as it swings around Elands Bay heading back north to the mines.

This trio of Class 18E locomotives, headed by 18-349, still look pretty good in their "refreshed", old Spoornet blue livery. They are seen here passing through Camperdown, as they leave... (more)

18-205 heads a cement train for up North

18-167 / 18-627 / 18-513 are passing through Umlaas Road as they leave Durban with a short(ish) tanker train. Chicken / poultry farms abound in this area, which has a large farm on both sides of ... (more)

The yard foreman has one more tumbler to throw and then E1504 & E1422 will be clear to leave Bayhead Yard to return to their depot at Wentworth, having just dropped off empty timber wagons from Um... (more)

From left to right - Class 8E (E8054) / Class 36 (36-257) / Class 8E (E8032) / Class 6E1 (E1511 & E1408). E1511 & E1408 have just arrived at Bayhead Yard to collect a load of timber wagon empties... (more)

Quite possibly the most unusual railway operation in South Africa today - a former Australian locomotive (ex- Queensland Railways) now owned by a private South African operator (RRL Grindrod), hau... (more)

Another 324-wagon load of iron ore arrives for export at Saldanha

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)

A short train drops down a slight grade between Malmesbury and Moorreesburg heading to the cement factory at De Hoek.

On the left, Class 6E1 units with E1598 in charge are just about ready to leave the large Bayhead Yard in Durban to return to their depot. On the right are Class 8E electric shunting units workin... (more)

In the heart of Free State farming country these two Kroonstad based class 34-400's with a full load of mealies (maize), are approaching a sandy farm road crossing near Ancona. No wonder this regi... (more)