Only about 6 months left of steam at Saiccor now before diesel replacement! The last working steam operations (non preservation) in South Africa. Saiccor No. 3 (Ex SAR Class 19D No. 2767) - Leavi... (more)

This short (8 coach) Type 10M5 Metrorail set bound for Cato Ridge was lucky to have missed the worst of this still burning trackside grass fire (very typical during the dry winter months) as it pa... (more)

The working life of E8075 is over, pictured here in the workshops at the Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot in January 2011, as she was being stripped of her working parts to help keep the remaining... (more)

Three of the remaining survivors of the original 100 that entered service between 1983 and 1985 for South African Railways - an additional 7 were built for the mining industry. Class 8E, centre c... (more)

Three RRL Grindrod Diesel Locomotives being readied for their journey to Ncala - Mozambique by sea. This is an ex South African Railway / Transnet Freight Rail Class 35 locomotive, now RRL 35-07, ... (more)

Amid very unsettled hazy / smoggy conditions, 18-655 is about to pass under the Congella Road steel bridge with one of the luxury Blue Train sets, which is visiting Durban this weekend on a Vodaco... (more)

Bubble wrapped from China. The first one off the Indonesian registered vessel, Kato Bangga, of the eighteen Chinese built diesel locomotives for SNCC (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer du Co... (more)

The opportunities for snow and particularly train photos in the snow, are pretty rare in Kwazulu Natal. Here is 18-126 at the front of a "Python" - 65 X CAR Wagons (Coal) passing through Balgowan... (more)

An early summer evening (18:00hrs) at Bayhead, the largest goods receiving and dispatching yard in Durban, and E8091, in her wonderful old South African Railway livery, with her working mate in â€... (more)

The yard foreman has one more tumbler to throw and then E1504 & E1422 will be clear to leave Bayhead Yard to return to their depot at Wentworth, having just dropped off empty timber wagons from Um... (more)

Class 6E1, E1506, still looking fantastic in her refreshed original South African Railway livery nearly 40 years after entering service, together with three mates (a bit of motive power overkill),... (more)

The last of the winter afternoon sun, as this 12 coach 10M5 Metrorail set bound for Cato Ridge from Durban winds its way through Cliffdale, running about 35 minutes late due to single line working... (more)

Slowly but surely repaints into the red TFR (Transnet Freight Rail) livery of the older members of the locomotive fleet are taking place. 36-238 is a recent example of this, a Class 36 Diesel Shu... (more)

On a beautiful winter afternoon in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, 18-363 has almost completed the recently reballasted section between Rosetta and Mooi River with a mixed load of Petrol and Diesel Ta... (more)

Sundown at Cedara Station and the Blue Train, with 18-802 / 18-807 in charge, has just completed the 6.9km section of track up through Cedara Tunnel. After a weekend in Durban, the train had depa... (more)