The shadows are getting longer, with just the last of the late afternoon winter sun managing to get through. 18-778 and a cement train is seen here passing through the remains of Camperdown Stati... (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)

18-098 is Durban bound and running down past National Chicks "Willow Farm" in Umlaas Road towards Camperdown. The blue tarpaulin covered wagons are Zimbabwean I believe, but what they ... (more)

Another sunrise one from the Pentrich Viaduct in Pietermaritzburg. 18-036 is Durban bound with a car train. The consist had two types of car carrier wagons in it. Type CML were at the front (th... (more)

Container traffic on the Natal Main Line, both in and out of Durban is brisk. This is 18-104 with a load of 35 container wagons passing through Cato Ridge Station bound for Durban. There is abou... (more)

18-219 has just rounded the corner at the top of the long and inviting straight after Umlaas Road Station that runs down towards Camperdown with this Durban bound grain train (various grain wagon ... (more)

Just after a very hazy winter sunrise (we need rain badly), as Class 18E Series 1, 18-008, heads this Durban bound train with a load of export steel coils across the Pentrich Viaduct in a very dry... (more)

An early summer evening (18:15) and there is a storm brewing, as 18-291 heads a Durban bound grain train through Umlaas Road Station. Staged on the loop line is a works train.

18-110 is climbing the hill out of Elandslaagte Station with a load of coal and is heading towards Ladysmith. A few graves of young british soldiers, who lost their lives in the Boer War, can be ... (more)

18-524 / 18-267 / 18-052 and a load of containers bound for Kaserne in Johannesburg are about to make a quick stop at Umlaas Road Station.

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)

18-659 / 18-220 / 18-667 are bound for Durban and are crossing the Mooi River Bridge, as they pass through the vibrantly green and lush grazing lands of the dairy producing area of Mooi River in t... (more)

18-055 / 18-667 / 18-229 (dead unit) run contra flow down through the steep gradients of Boughton / Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg with a short load of almost all Maersk containers.

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl in Durban's Class 36 shunter, 36-215, about to couple onto the two Class 18E units (18-404 & 18-415), that had just arrived in Durban from Johannesburg with the Trans Natal... (more)

18-283 assisted by four additional units has just crossed the Mkondeni Viaduct with a long load of 65 Type CAR wagon empties, which were picked up at Cato Ridge a little earlier.