A local suburban passenger train is seen here winding its way around the many curves of the Natal main line between Cato Ridge & Durban. These 10M5 sets were re-built / constructed from the older ... (more)

Class 35 diesels (GE U15C) with the daily malt train pass through Elgin station. The stacks of fruit crates in the background bring back memories when fruit used to leave Elgin by rail.

Class 35 diesels (GE U15C) with the daily malt train cross a bridge as they climb up Houwhoek pass from Bot River.

On the morning of the 18th December 2013, amid obvious miserable / less than desirable weather conditions in Durban, South Africa, a rather significant railway event played out at O Shed in Durban... (more)

Two class 43s approach Loop 7 with a string of empties on another hot day in the Northern Cape.

36027 in the Prasa blue colour scheme is being towed at the back here on a special move to Cape Town with a class 7E 25kV AC loco just in front also joining the trip.

Late afternoon and 18-256 / 18-408 / 18-242 have just climbed away from Cliffdale up to Hammarsdale with a Mixed / Tanker load. The train is outward bound from Durban. An interesting number allo... (more)

Private safari train operator Rovos Rail has purchased a number of former South African Railways class 5E1 3kV DC Bo-Bo electric locomotives, to work its trains in Gauteng province. On a beautiful... (more)

A train of jet fuel tankers from Durban to Johannesburg is climbing the grade west of Spruytsrus station towards the Kraal tunnel (1462 meters / 4796 feet), led by 18E 18 639 and two sisters in Sp... (more)

Class 16DA 879 has just pulled out of the loop line and are about to run past the Metro set in the back onto which it will couple for the trip back to Cape Town.

A manganese load heading towards Durban on the down grade between Cheiveley and Frere. These overhead centenary mast poles from the 1930's will soon be a thing of the past, as the new modern mas... (more)

15070 runs around its empty train back to the depot at Saldanha after picking up problems and unable to continue further.

No. 2203 “DARWIN” is one of four of these 422 Class Clyde/EMD J26C (Standard Gauge) locomotives, that are part of a total of 23 locomotives of various Class / Types (all diesel), that arrived ... (more)

The sun has set behind the mountains in the Namaqualand as an empty ore train continues its journey north into the night.

15025 and 15071 lead an empty ore train north here across the Kromrivier bridge.