The GMAM was the usual motive power on the line until the end of Steam in the early 1970s.

Originally designed as an express passenger engine, many of the members of this class spent the last years of their working lives working freight trains between Bloemfontein and Noupoort.

One tends to pick their path very carefully when walking to a photo spot here. The Cape Natal line into and out of Creighton was a wonderful venue for charters with this engine, but sadly Transne... (more)

The last working steam operations (non preservation) in South Africa. Saiccor No. 3 (Ex SAR Class 19D No. 2767) - Leaving the Saiccor Exchange Yard at Umkomaas with a load of timber for the short... (more)

The last of actual (non preservation) working steam operations in South Africa is carried out at the Saiccor Paper Mill at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast. This is Saiccor No. 1 working... (more)

Friends of the Rail's Berkshire makes a spectacular departure from her home depot with a short goods train. The rail on the left leads to the top of the coal stage, the last in working order on t... (more)

This Class 15F belongs to David Shepard, famous wildlife and steam locomotive artist. It was donated to him by the South African Railways in 1991 in exchange for a painting of thie locomotive and... (more)

Panned at 70 kilometers an hour on the return journey from Magaliesburg to Johannesburg.

The Apple Express Society operated this charter for Geoff's Trains. No 119 was one of the regular engines on this line in Steam Days.

Almost twenty years after the end of regular steam on this line, Reefsteamers re-creates the old days at sunset on Sterkfontein farm.

The return working of the Staurdays-only Bombela train, returning Lesotho Mine workers from the Witwatersrand performs a blowdown. My old friend Steve Hardy had arranged the smoke and the blowdow... (more)

A Union Limited special departs from Donkerpoort Station in the russet browns of the dry highveld winter. No 3300 was then the last working example of her class. Very similar to the Class 15F sh... (more)

The Daimond Express on the return journey to Pretoria, approaches the curve where she was derailed 8 days before this picture was taken. The Pretoria area is well known for spectacular shows of J... (more)

On an unusually cold and blustery mid winters midday the Magaliesburg Express climbs the last few kilometers to Vlakdrift.