A pretty rare sight, with just the single Class 6E1, E1314, working this overnight Durban bound "Trans Natal" through the top loop at Boughton. This section of the Natal Main Line is pa... (more)

18-404 is seen here shortly before crossing over the N3 into Cato Ridge Station with an empty Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal. The original units on the train (dead units 3 & 4) had failed on depar... (more)

36-251 is seen here busy shunting the Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal down to the Carriage & Wagon Inspection Yard. Shunt assistants are about to exchange clearance information re the inspection pi... (more)

18-435 / 18-434, the latest two Class 18E locomotives to join the PRASA fleet, had to work / shunt their own train (Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal) down to the yard this morning. Usually the units... (more)

Just after a rather splendid spring sunrise in Pietermaritzburg this morning, as the overnight, Durban Bound, Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal, with 18-430 / 18-429 in charge cross the Pentrich Viadu... (more)

New to the fleet and with their duty finished, 18-432 & 18-433 in their PRASA blue livery are seen here returning to New Durban Yard after their 13 hour journey from Johannesburg to Durban, having... (more)

Early on a winter morning and with snow from the previous week's snowfall still visible on the mountain tops, 18-405 heads the overnight, Durban bound, Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal down from Darg... (more)

An early winter morning, as Class 6E1, E1659, one of only a handful of her class that made it into the "Purple" Shosholoza Meyl livery, is seen here unravelling from the top balloon at Boughton wi... (more)

Shortly after sunrise and running just 30 minutes late at this stage of the overnight journey from Johannesburg, Class 6E1, E1314, with a Durban bound Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal is seen here on... (more)

Early morning and the sun has just risen as 18-405 / 18-421 head the overnight Johannesburg to Durban "Trans Natal" through Cedara Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, running a good hour late a... (more)

Its 6:45am on a winter morning as 18-405 heads a Shosholoza Meyl (Trans Natal) across the Pentrich Viaduct and leaves Pietermaritzburg behind, for the final stage of the journey on to Durban. Thi... (more)

18-405 and a Durban bound Shosholoza Meyl (Trans Natal) runs contra flow toward Cato Ridge.

E1417 in the old Spoornet "Orange" livery is in charge of this Durban bound Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal, pictured here passing through Pentrich Station. I had chatted to the driver, who did a cr... (more)

18-405 heads a Trans Natal (operated by PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl) out of Lions River enroute to Durban.