A scheduled Rovos Rail train, with mostly stunning and hugely impressive vintage clerestory roofed coaches in the consist, has made a routine stop at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midla... (more)

Track maintenance ahead, so please proceed with caution! 18-121 is Durban bound with a Car Train and has just been crossed over to the loop line at Boughton Station to run contra flow down throug... (more)

All smiles and work done for the day! Class 36 (200) shunters, 36-227 and 36-230, are pictured here at Cato Ridge Station. They had spent the day working a track maintenance train (a few DZ Wago... (more)

18-601 passing through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with loaded grain wagons, while a load of containers heading for Kaserne in Johannesburg is on the up line. The train is Du... (more)

18-067 has just completed the difficult, steep and very twisty climb up from Pietermaritzburg to the top of Boughton with a load of tanker wagons. The climb will however continue from this point,... (more)

18-601 and 18-512 are seen here working a Rail / Works Train down towards Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg. At the time there was extensive work being done on the section of the line that run... (more)

E1510 and the overnight Durban to Johannesburg passenger train, "Trans Natal", is pictured here at Pepworth, about 10km on the Johannesburg side of Ladysmith. The train was running almo... (more)

Class 6E1, E1598 (in her original South African Railway livery and still sporting at least one of her prized and highly collectable brass number plates, outside the workshops of the Umbilo Electri... (more)

18-036 passing through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands, with a mixed load (Covered Wagons & Steel). The train is Durban bound and has about 3½ hours of its journey remaining unt... (more)

An outward bound from Durban cement train, headed by 18-237 / 18-639, is climbing out of Pietermaritzburg through Boughton and towards Cedara. Large volumes of cement are carried on the Natal Mai... (more)

About 500 meters away from Cato Ridge Station and 18-048 is outward bound from Durban with a load of C Type Wagon empties. The empties were probably bound for one of the coal mining towns in North... (more)

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl Class 6E1 locomotives (still in their "orange" Spoornet livery), E1314 / E1389, are busy running around a special 2012 Tourism Indaba Premier Classe Special. They... (more)

18-066 and a cement train pass the wreck of a Cessna, that a bit earlier had overshot the end of a runway on landing at a private airstrip on a farm on top of the hill to the right of the photo an... (more)

Shosholoza Meyl / PRASA Class 7E, E7010, is pictured here at the Transnet Engineering workshops in Durban, having just undergone a repaint into the Shosholoza Meyl purple livery. E7010 is an East... (more)

Unfortunately the weather did not play along for this rare occasion when two of PRASA's brand new Class 18E main line passenger haulers, 18-431 & 18-430, visited Kelso on the KwaZulu Natal South C... (more)