Some fresh paint at the dawning of a new day. The first two of this class to be put into the PRASA "blue" livery. E1667 (with E1603 behind) are Class 6E1 Series 5 electric locomotives, that orig... (more)

A mixed batch of 34 ex Tranz Metro (New Zealand) motor coaches and trailers arrived in Durban, South Africa on board the MV Pangani early in April 2014 for Novus / Genrail. The majority of them ar... (more)

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)

What you see here is the sad remains of part of what was once a busy and vibrant operation of the South African Railways, and in later years Alfred County Railway and the Banana Express - the two ... (more)

The signal cabin at Dundee Station in Northern KwaZulu Natal still contains its original lever frame (and its a beautiful example of its type), which is used to control the colour light signals an... (more)

Veteran Class 6E1 electric locomotives, E1658 / E1595 / E1318, are pictured here passing through Ashburton Station on their way to Johannesburg, having just left the Transnet Engineering Workshops... (more)

18-008 climbs the hill out of Lions River towards Tweedie in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a mixed freight train. Mixed freights are not that often seen on the Natal Main Line. A single Class... (more)

Steam is still hanging in there at the SAPPI / Saiccor Paper Mill in Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast! Saiccor No.3 (has already had her cabside plates removed), ex South African Railway... (more)

Already off loaded and staged in a holding yard at Maydon Wharf. Transnet Freight Rail imported 34 ex Queensland Railway locomotives. They arrived in Durban on the BBC Ohio and off loading began... (more)

Scanned image (original on Kodachrome - camera used was a Voitlander Vitomatic) © Lindsay Bridge from The Lindsay Bridge Vintage South African Railways Collection and submitted here with permissi... (more)

Over the last five years or so I have made fairly regular trips down to Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast to watch and photograph the ex South African Railway Class 19D steam locomotives o... (more)

The national flag of Angola has been incorporated prominently in the new livery of CFL (Caminho de Ferro de Luanda) / Luanda Railway - sometimes called Angola Railway. CFL 111 (GE U20C) is pictur... (more)

(See photo ID 451287 for the "after"). During July 2013 RRL Grindrod South Africa imported two decommissioned Kiwi Rail / Tranz Rail Class DQ - G12C (DQ6347 / DQ6382) locomotives from New Zealand... (more)

Class 18E, 18-012, is supporting a heavy load of coal behind her as she rolls down the steep gradient through Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg on her way to Cato Ridge / Durban. A variety of ... (more)

GPR 30-03, staged at the Point Yard at the main entrance to Durban Harbour along with GPR 30-04, both locomotives built by RRL Grindrod South Africa. They were awaiting the arrival of a ship to ta... (more)