The sun just manages to get a look through to offer up some sort of a reflection shot of EXX-3003 while staged in a yard in Maydon Wharf, Durban, awaiting the arrival of a ship to take it (and two... (more)

The Blue Train comes to Durban for the weekend! 18-802 & 18-807 (very recent additions to the TFR Class 18E fleet) are seen here with one of Transnet Freight Rail's prestigious and world renowned... (more)

Class 7 locomotive of the type used on the first construction train to visit Riversdal on 3 December 1903 when the railway line between Ashton and Mossel Bay was built for the old NCCR company.

PRASA 18-401, very recently repainted (started out in the Shosholoza Meyl "purple" livery) and with a noted variation to the colouring around the borders of the cab windows to the other Class 18E ... (more)

The crew preparing to disembark from a very long night,4 class 30 locomotives on hire to Transnet Freight Rail is being shutdown with its train of 103 empty ore wagons,Due to a hookup this train h... (more)

Late afternoon as 18-778 passes through Shongweni on her way out of Durban up the Natal Main Line with a load of cement. This train was being held up by an all-stops Cato Ridge bound Metrorail se... (more)

On a repositioning move from Bothaville to Bloemfontein, Transnet's Phelophepa 1 health care train is about to join the Free State main line at Whites, as it comes off the Welkom branch. Two class... (more)

As a brand new Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-645, is pictured here in the workshops at the Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot, having just emerged from the Class 6E1 / Class 18E upgrade program ... (more)

An Australian in South Africa.....this ex-Queensland Railways class 1720 Clyde GL18C Co-Co now belongs to RRL Grindrod and is currently based at Welkom to work the Harmony Gold ore traffic. On a w... (more)

15073 assists at the back of an empty ore train as it passes through loop 1 at Dwarskersbos with some thunder clouds building up in the distance.

Two class 35s leading a short freight have just pass through Ashton heading to Worcester with the Langeberge (long mountains) in the distance.

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)

On 19th & 20th May, five of the first ten Class 20E dual voltage 3kV DC / 25kV AC electric locomotives, built in China by Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., a subsidiary of the China South Locomotiv... (more)

On 19th & 20th May, five of the first ten Class 20E dual voltage 3kV DC / 25kV AC electric locomotives, built in China by Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., a subsidiary of the China South Locomotiv... (more)

These two diesel locomotives from the 1960s (CFL 111 & CFL 104) are type GE U20C and belong to CFL (Caminho de Ferro de Luanda) / Luanda Railway - sometimes called Angola Railway. They are pictur... (more)