18-219 has just rounded the corner at the top of the long and inviting straight after Umlaas Road Station that runs down towards Camperdown with this Durban bound grain train (various grain wagon ... (more)

Just after a very hazy winter sunrise (we need rain badly), as Class 18E Series 1, 18-008, heads this Durban bound train with a load of export steel coils across the Pentrich Viaduct in a very dry... (more)

Class 34 122 and a unidentified class-mate brings the ballast screening train into the interchange for the Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line. The ballast screener will be used in an intensive two mont... (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)

Three grubby 18E's with a block load of empty grain wagons are climbing the Majuba pass that will take them from kwaZulu-Natal over the Drakensberg mountains into Mpumalanga province. This locatio... (more)

18699 and 19697 swing around the curve at Muldersvlei with Rovos behind heading back to Pretoria after the train did a 9 day trip around the country.

An early summer evening (18:15) and there is a storm brewing, as 18-291 heads a Durban bound grain train through Umlaas Road Station. Staged on the loop line is a works train.

On a blue sky winter morning with the temperature below freezing, a quartet of clean 18E's hauling a 65-wagon train of type CAR empties (dubbed a "python"), is beginning the long climb u... (more)

18-110 is climbing the hill out of Elandslaagte Station with a load of coal and is heading towards Ladysmith. A few graves of young british soldiers, who lost their lives in the Boer War, can be ... (more)

18-524 / 18-267 / 18-052 and a load of containers bound for Kaserne in Johannesburg are about to make a quick stop at Umlaas Road Station.

On a blue sky winter morning with the temperature below freezing, the occupants of this rural homestead were yet to venture outside, while in the background a quartet of 18E's pass through Ingogo ... (more)

On a typical blue sky winter day, three 18E's, with a fourth unit dead-in-tow, are approaching the N11 highway bridge near Ingogo with a train of empty jet fuel tankers from Johannesburg to Durban... (more)

A container train with the usual power of three 18E's up front, is on its way inland from Durban to Johannesburg, passing through the rural countryside around Ingogo as it tackles the long climb o... (more)

Two red 18Es pull off the main line with the Blue Train behind into Worcester station.

Class 35 053 brings a set of Slagment empties into Langebaaneenheid interchange yard. The wagons will be later taken to the Arcelor Mittal Saldanha steelworks for filling with slag (a byproduct of... (more)