Friends of the Rails Class 24 departs from Cullinan Station with the return working to Pretoria. The disused cattle loading dock and the height loading guage is seen on the left and the house on ... (more)

Southbound steam trains were regularly banked up the Loodsberg Pass. A helper engine was stationed at Jagpoort, a station and watering point. The helper would be detached at the summit and would... (more)

This Steam and Safaris Charter train has just completed the climb from Tierkranz via 8th and 7th Reverses. 8th Reverse is clearly seen in the middle distance on the right. The line was closed in... (more)

The sun has just risen on Friends of the Rails Berkshire, heading a photographic charter train. The tones in the winter veldt match the tones in the steam plume.

One of the Class 19Ds stationed at Bloemfontein, does an accurate re-enactment of steam operations on this remote branch line. Regular steam operations ended in 1978.

Reefsteamers Class 15F is seen nearing Slabbers Station a few minutes before sunrise.

A Steam and Safaris Charter train heads north for Kimberley with an old-style SAR passenger train. No 3454 was a modified member of her class - her double lempor exaust is aparrent in this view.

Friends of the Rail's class 19D climbs towards Van der Merwe Siding and Rayton. This is the last section of main line in South Africa that sees frequent steam working. In the 1970s Panpoort was ... (more)

Lit by the headlights of my Subaru Forester, Reefsteamers is readied for the departure of the annual Cherry Festival Train. The time was 2.54am.

On the final day of the 2011 Aloe festival, a train conveying cyclists to Donnybrook winds its way through the spectacular scenary in the foothills of the Drakaneberg.

Reefsteamers Class 25NC, with a steam plume as long as her train approaches Sheridan siding with a train bound for Ficksburg. Just the way it was in steam days.

Fauresmith is the only town in South Africa where the railway runs down the middle of the main street. Regular steam had ended some years before this picture was taken, but the cars, coincidental... (more)

Friends of the Rails 1947-built berkshire departs from Cullinan on a cold, clear winter morning.

Reefsteamers Alco-built Class 15CA pilots Class 15F No 3016 up the valley between Fouriesburg Station and Meynell Siding.

Built in 1915 the last remaining Class 12AR is currently having 8 boiler tubes replaced. She will then return to her duties as the mainstay of the Reefsteamers fleet of steam locomotives. This w... (more)