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.

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.

Container traffic on the line between Durban and Johannesburg is very brisk, with Durban's busy harbour handling a seemingly never ending stream of container ships at it's container terminal. Thi... (more)

18-218 / 18-045 run light units past the old signal box at Umlaas Road Station en-route to Masons Mill / Pietermaritzburg.

It's late afternoon and a typical summer thunderstorm is brewing as 18-683 / 18-639 / 18-642 all in red Transnet Freight Rail livery run light units through the sad remains of Umlaas Road Station ... (more)