This Type 5M2A Metrorail set, Train No. 1039 (Set M9), had just arrived at Durban Station from Cato Ridge and is now heading to one of the Metrorail / PRASA yards just north of the station for sta... (more)

This older Type 5M2A Metrorail set, having just crossed over the main lines for the North Coast (in and out of Durban), is heading for the workshops adjacent to the staging yards just north of Dur... (more)

Cheers and whistles from this track maintenance gang as they get an early start on their busy day. They are seen here leaving New Durban Yard (just north of Durban Station) with one of the PLASSE... (more)

PRASA Class 18Es, 18-435 and 18-434, in the shed just north of Durban Station, with a technician replacing a pantograph. 18-434 had a pantograph hook-up on the way to Durban from Johannesburg wit... (more)

This empty timber trains heads to the timber sidings up in Northern KwaZulu Natal area, to be loaded and return to the SAPPI factory in Umkomaas.

E1394 is the last remaining working Class 6E1 locomotive in Durban and her future remains uncertain at this time. She is pictured here on her return to the yard in Durban from CTE (Commuter Trans... (more)

Wentworth Breakdown team and it's crane came to load old coach bogies into DZ wagons for scrap, after half the old coach yard had been made part of the Moses Mabhida soccer stadium grounds for the... (more)

Metrorail Durban's Emergency Train (MET) is front and centre (ish) here, with a couple of track maintenance vehicles to the left and to the right is a type NAY Wagon (Ballast), as well as the last... (more)

Class 18E locomotives, 18-405 & 18-414, return to the New Durban Yard just north of Durban Station, having just arrived in Durban with the overnight Johannesburg - Durban Premier Classe passenger ... (more)

Its a busy morning at PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl's New Durban Yard, just north of Durban Station, with three mainline passenger trains in Durban for the weekend. The last "Daylight Sitter" service d... (more)

Metrorail's Emergency / Breakdown Train (MET) aka "ET" staged at New Durban Yard.

18-435 / 18-434, the latest two Class 18E locomotives to join the PRASA fleet, had to work / shunt their own train (Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal) down to the yard this morning. Usually the units... (more)

New to the fleet and with their duty finished, 18-432 & 18-433 in their PRASA blue livery are seen here returning to New Durban Yard after their 13 hour journey from Johannesburg to Durban, having... (more)

Just after sunrise at New Durban Yard on a Public Holiday this morning and E8025 is staged with the SWC (Sebenza Weed Chemicals) Train, aka "The Weed Train". Today the train will be working / spr... (more)

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl Class 36 shunter (still in "blue" Spoornet livery), 36-251, shunts one of the overnight Johannesburg to Durban Premier Classe sets down to New Durban Yard after its arrival... (more)