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Photo Album By: SAR Connecta
 
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Photo ID: 474819

With just the dying embers of the autumn afternoon’s sun remaining, and running ahead of schedule at 17:12hrs, 18-434 & 18-435 are seen here negotiating the difficult section through the top of ... (more)

Railroad: Shosholoza Meyl
Locomotive: Class 18E (Electric)
Location: Boughton / Pietermaritzburg - KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Locomotive #: 18-434 / 18-435
Train ID: Daylight Sitter
Photo Date: March 21, 2014


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Mar 23, 2014

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Photo ID: 473847

During the late 1970's the most well known locomotive based at Voorbaai depot (Mossel Bay) was this class GMAM 4-8-2 + 2-8-4 garratt, unofficially named "Amin" after Idi Amin, the infamous preside... (more)

Railroad: South African Railways
Locomotive: Class GMAM 4-8-2 + 2-8-4 garratt
Location: Oudtshoorn, Western Cape province, South Africa
Locomotive #: 4070
Train ID: 31007/8
Photo Date: May 31, 1979


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By: Eugene Armer

Added: Mar 16, 2014

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Photo ID: 472326

Germiston-based class 15CA No.2820 (North British Locomotive Co. / 1928) is working train 1220, the Denver pick-up, against a backdrop of gold mine dumps between Driehoek and Geldenhuis. This was ... (more)

Railroad: South African Railways
Locomotive: Class 15CA 4-8-2
Location: Germiston, Gauteng province (was Transvaal), South Africa
Locomotive #: 2820
Train ID: 1220
Photo Date: May 12, 1984


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By: Eugene Armer

Added: Mar 04, 2014

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Photo ID: 472324

In the 1970's one of the greatest train journeys in South Africa was along the Garden Route between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (P.E.), over a rail distance of 1085 km (674 miles) in 41 hours. Al... (more)

Railroad: South African Railways
Locomotive: Class GMAM 4-8-2 + 2-8-4 garratt
Location: George, Western Cape province, South Africa
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: 13010/9
Photo Date: October 28, 1978


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By: Eugene Armer

Added: Mar 04, 2014

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Photo ID: 467965

The large PRASA / Metrorail Yard just north of Durban Station - the platform portals of the station can be seen towards the top left of the photo. One of the Blue Train sets is staged on the Cater... (more)

Railroad: Metrorail
Locomotive: EMU
Location: Durban, South Africa
Locomotive #: EMU
Train ID: Commuter
Photo Date: January 28, 2014


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Jan 28, 2014

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Photo ID: 467589

A rare photo opportunity, in the midst of a brewing (typical) summer afternoon thunderstorm, with a Class 5E1 Series 5 locomotive, E1102, originally built in 1966, and a Class 6E1 Series 3 locomot... (more)

Railroad: Transnet Freight Rail
Locomotive: Class 5E1 Series 5 (Electric)
Location: Ladysmith - KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Locomotive #: E1102 / E1358
Train ID: Shunt
Photo Date: February 06, 2011


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Jan 26, 2014

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Photo ID: 452565

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)

Railroad: Metro Rail
Locomotive: Class 8E (Electric)
Location: Durban, South Africa
Locomotive #: E8025
Train ID: SWC (Weed Train)
Photo Date: September 24, 2013


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Sep 24, 2013

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Photo ID: 447235

Some real South African electric locomotive history in this line up standing in a disused South African Railway Goods Shed in Ladysmith. From right to left - Class 1E E25 (only two of the origina... (more)

Railroad: South African Railways
Locomotive: Class 1E (Electric)
Location: Ladysmith - KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Locomotive #: E25
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 12, 2011


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Aug 14, 2013

Views: 4,175
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Photo ID: 447063

The only remaining Class 6E1 in Durban, E1394, is seen passing through the very dry and arid Ashburton Station area on an extremely hot and humid summer morning. Behind her and in a new livery is... (more)

Railroad: Metrorail
Locomotive: Class 6E1 (Electric)
Location: Ashburton - KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Locomotive #: E1394
Train ID: KZN Business Express
Photo Date: February 26, 2013


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Aug 13, 2013

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Photo ID: 442518

Unfortunately the weather did not play along for this rare occasion when two of PRASA's brand new Class 18E main line passenger haulers, 18-431 & 18-430, visited Kelso on the KwaZulu Natal South C... (more)

Railroad: Shosholoza Meyl
Locomotive: Class 18E (Electric)
Location: Kelso, South Africa
Locomotive #: 18-431
Train ID: Ballast Train
Photo Date: July 02, 2013


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Jul 07, 2013

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Photo ID: 437866

Well cleaned and highly decorated No. 3652 "TOOTSIE" passes a fine stand of Aloe Ferox (Red Hot Pokers) on her way to Knysna

Railroad: Spoornet
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-4
Location: Garden Route, South Africa
Locomotive #: Class 24 No. 3652
Train ID: GRG-KNY Mixed
Photo Date: June, 1986


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By: RailRog

Added: May 29, 2013

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Photo ID: 437865

The daily mixed train from George hammers up Goukamma Bank on its way to Knysna. In another half hour the train will have reached its destination

Railroad: Spoornet
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-4
Location: Garden Route, South Africa
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: GRG-KNY Mixed
Photo Date: September, 1987


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By: RailRog

Added: May 29, 2013

Views: 1,725
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Photo ID: 432611

This is 18-401, with one of PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl's flagship long distance passenger rail sets - Premier Classe, crossing over the Pentrich Viaduct enroute to Durban, on one of the more clear wi... (more)

Railroad: Shosholoza Meyl
Locomotive: Class 18E (Electric)
Location: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Locomotive #: 18-401
Train ID: Premier Classe
Photo Date: June 25, 2011


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Apr 17, 2013

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Photo ID: 432208

Two 6E1 locomotives (E1314 & E1389) in the old Spoornet "Orange" livery head a Premier Classe "Tourism Indaba Special" over the Umgababa Bridge while on their way back to Durban Station from Umkom... (more)

Railroad: Shosholoza Meyl
Locomotive: Class 6E1 (Electric)
Location: Durban, South Africa
Locomotive #: E1314
Train ID: Premier Classe
Photo Date: May 13, 2012


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By: SAR Connecta

Added: Apr 14, 2013

Views: 3,065
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Photo ID: 428963

In the mid-1990's the Rustenburg Platinum Mine helped extend the life of several South African Railways class 15CA and 15F 4-8-2 steam locomotives, which they hired from S.A.R. to work on their ex... (more)

Railroad: Untitled
Locomotive: Class 15F 4-8-2
Location: Rustenburg, North West province, South Africa
Locomotive #: 2908
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 10, 1994


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By: Eugene Armer

Added: Mar 19, 2013

Views: 1,869
Comments: 1

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