Brand new to the Transnet Freight Rail fleet, 18-773 & 18-772 passing through Umlaas Road, as they leave KwaZulu Natal with one of the beautiful and prestigious Blue Train sets, bound for Johannes... (more)

18-183, and a load of containers / container flats, is soaking up the early winter afternoon sun while staged at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Lions River Station is the best... (more)

18-052 with a Durban bound container train crossing the Pentrich Viaduct (Pietermaritzburg) early this morning.

A short Durban bound Rovos Rail set negotiating the top loop at Boughton on the drop down into Pietermaritzburg. Although Rovos Rail have a fairly extensive collection of vintage locomotives of t... (more)

18-435 / 18-434, the latest two Class 18E locomotives to join the PRASA fleet, had to work / shunt their own train (Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal) down to the yard this morning. Usually the units... (more)

Just after a rather splendid spring sunrise in Pietermaritzburg this morning, as the overnight, Durban Bound, Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal, with 18-430 / 18-429 in charge cross the Pentrich Viadu... (more)

New to the fleet and with their duty finished, 18-432 & 18-433 in their PRASA blue livery are seen here returning to New Durban Yard after their 13 hour journey from Johannesburg to Durban, having... (more)

18-328 & the Blue Train, South Africa's premier and world renowned long distance passenger train, was an extremely welcome visitor to Durban, KwaZulu Natal this weekend. She is pictured here pass... (more)

Early on a winter morning and with snow from the previous week's snowfall still visible on the mountain tops, 18-405 heads the overnight, Durban bound, Shosholoza Meyl / Trans Natal down from Darg... (more)

Just after sunrise, and the morning mist is still burning off, as 18-129 with a load of containers passes through Lions River in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. This train still has about 3 hours of ... (more)

18-267 with a load of containers bound for Johannesburg is seen here passing through Umlaas Road.

18-619 is climbing out of Lions River up towards Tweedie with CAR Wagons (loaded with coal) and bound for Cato Ridge.

18-131 with a Durban bound container train cautiously negotiating the top loop of Boughton, before the next stage of the drop down into Pietermaritzburg. The section between Cedara and Pietermari... (more)

18-329 has just crossed the Mkondeni Viaduct on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg with a Johannesburg bound Container / Container Flat train. Considering the chaos and carnage created by truckers ... (more)

Local farm workers attend to repairs to their corrugated iron roof, as 18-041 climbs up the hill (contra flow) out of Lions River towards Tweedie in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a load of coal.... (more)