Early morning and with trains standing (including one of the Blue Train sets bound for Durban) all over the place due to a major points problem after a power failure, one of Transnet's Luxrailer i... (more)

This Johannesburg bound container train, headed by 18-258, is climbing up towards Cato Ridge through Westermyer. having just passed through Hammarsdale and Georgedale. The train originated in Dur... (more)

Class 18E Series 1 locomotives, headed by 18-235, are passing through Cato Ridge and climbing up towards Cato Ridge Station. I saw them later in the day returning to Durban with a few empty tanke... (more)

Class 34 (600) Series, 34-649, is one of a 100 built by General Motors South Africa as Type GT26MC between 1974 and 1976 for South African Railways. With just on 40 years service now, she is pictu... (more)

18-066 / 18-055 / 18-523, from the Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot in Durban, have just arrived at Cato Ridge to pick up empty CAR Wagons to take them up to one of the coal towns in Northern KwaZ... (more)

A Type 10M5 commuter train, train No. 1083 (Set M7) operated by PRASA / Metrorail on an all stops journey from Durban to Cato Ridge is about to arrive at its destination. There is a regular commu... (more)

A special working, to dead haul two of the eighteen Chinese built diesels, that arrived in Durban by ship on the 18th May 2015 for SNCC (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer du Congo) in the DRC... (more)

Empty Timber wagons head back to Mason's Mill seen here departing from Cato Ridge with newly painted Locos.

All smiles and work done for the day! Class 36 (200) shunters, 36-227 and 36-230, are pictured here at Cato Ridge Station. They had spent the day working a track maintenance train (a few DZ Wago... (more)

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)

The overnight Johannesburg to Durban passenger train, the "Trans Natal", headed by 18-430, swings left into the early morning sun and is about to pass through Cato Ridge Station. Approx... (more)

Late on a chilly winter afternoon and 18-096, together with two mates, are running as light units in the section between Cato Ridge (COR) and Camperdown. They were probably bound for Masons Mill ... (more)

Class 34 (600) Series, 34-649, is one of a 100 built by General Motors South Africa as Type GT26MC between 1974 and 1976 for South African Railways. With just on 40 years service now, she is pict... (more)

Container traffic on the Natal Main Line, both in and out of Durban is brisk. This is 18-104 with a load of 35 container wagons passing through Cato Ridge Station bound for Durban. There is abou... (more)

18-404 is seen here shortly before crossing over the N3 into Cato Ridge Station with an empty Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal. The original units on the train (dead units 3 & 4) had failed on depar... (more)