Just after sunrise, as 18-414 and an overnight passenger service from Johannesburg to Durban, known as the "Trans Natal", is at the top of the inviting straight for the run down to Campe... (more)

It's late on a beautiful autumn afternoon as 18-157, with a short container load and outward bound from Durban, passes over Willow Farm Crossing in Umlaas Road. The train would have departed Durb... (more)

Pushing is what she does now! E1101 is a significantly refurbished (2007) Class 5E1 Series 5 electric unit, originally built in 1966. She and her sister, E1102, are now used by Transnet Freight ... (more)

This trio of Class 18E locomotives, headed by 18-349, still look pretty good in their "refreshed", old Spoornet blue livery. They are seen here passing through Camperdown, as they leave... (more)

18-167 / 18-627 / 18-513 are passing through Umlaas Road as they leave Durban with a short(ish) tanker train. Chicken / poultry farms abound in this area, which has a large farm on both sides of ... (more)

18-103 & 18-034 working as light units through Umlaas Road (probably on their way to Masons Mill in Pietermaritzburg to pick up a load) are doing their best to stay ahead of the unseasonal storm t... (more)

Class 18E, 18-411, is in charge of this load of various C Type Wagon empties passing through Umlaas Road. The train is probably bound for Newcastle / Northern KwaZulu Natal. These wagons are use... (more)

Class 34 (600) Series, 34-649, is one of a 100 built by General Motors South Africa as Type GT26MC between 1974 and 1976 for South African Railways. With just on 40 years service now, she is pict... (more)

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)

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)

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)

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.

18-524 / 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)