Dry winter grasses. Class 18E Series 1 locomotive,18-197, is heading a Johannesburg bound container train and has just crossed under the N3 (main road between Johannesburg and Durban). The train... (more)

Every year late winter/early spring parts of the west coast are transformed into a colourful paradise of wild flowers depending on the rain during the winter. Here an empty ore train passes such a... (more)

Three class 35s approach Koekenaap in the late afternoon with a load from the Namaqua Sands plant heading to loop 4 of the ore line.

This container train, headed by 18-197, has just past through Frere Station and is now starting the climb up towards Chieveley. The train is Johannesburg bound and is about to pass under the R603... (more)

This is Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-502, at the top of the bank just past the Hebron Haven (guest farm) crossing at Lions River in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a Durban bound grain train ... (more)

A very smokey / hazy afternoon (dry winter seasonal fires which are very common at this time of year) in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. This is Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-502, climbing the hi... (more)

Class 36 (200) diesel shunting locomotives (GM-EMD SW1002), 36-220 & 36-246, working sugar wagons around the top of one of the Bayhead yards. Slowly but surely these shunters in the old Spoornet "... (more)

The Grime Side Of The Force indeed Jean-Marc Frybourg! I photographed Class 18E Series 2 locomotive, 18-645 (pictured here at Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg), as a brand new locomotive shor... (more)

Zooming in on the luxurious South African Blue Train, headed by Class 18E Series 2 locomotive 18-773, in the section between Camperdown and Umlaas Road. The train was making a leisurely Sunday af... (more)

Crossing the steel girder bridge across the Lions River into Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Class 18E series 1 Locomotive, 18-224 is Durban bound with a load of coal, probably... (more)

Sunrise and another busy day ahead. One of the many hard working Class 36 (200) diesel shunting locomotives (GM-EMD SW1002), 36-214, working around the Maydon Wharf / Bayhead / Durban area. Slow... (more)

Rosetta Station in the beautiful KwaZulu Natal Midlands. 18-509 is at the head of this quintet of Class 18E locomotives and has a load of empty Type CAR Wagons. The train is heading for the coal... (more)

A chilly and very dry winter afternoon as three matching Spoornet “blue” liveried Class 18E Series 1 locomotives, headed by 18-311, climb the hill up towards the Nelson Mandela Capture Site / ... (more)

On occasion full time freight haulers are called upon to head South Africa's internationally renowned luxury passenger train, the Blue Train. Class 18E Series 1 locomotive, 18-328 (and her running... (more)

20032 leads the Blue Train through Wellington on the trip from Cape Town to Pretoria.