Apart from hauling the Blue Train up and down all the way between Cape Town and Pretoria, Class 14Es and 14E1s have to do some real work too. They can run off either 3kV DC or 25kV AC, making the... (more)

The Premier Classe from Johannesburg to Cape Town approaching Stikland Station, after which it will start slowing down for its penultimate stop at Bellville station.

The conductor keeps an eye from the rear end cab while passengers at Stikland station are boarding the "Boland Blitz", here returning to Worcester in the late afternoon.

The Premiere Classe train leaving Cape Town on a hot Saturday morning.

35-053 passes by the signal that serves the turnoff off the main line for goods trains going to the Bellville yards.

During the Anglo-Boer war the railroad dependent British Army built blockhouses to protect this bridge and several others against attacks from Boer commandos. This bridge and its blockhouse (off ... (more)

Metro 3531, the "Boland Blitz" (Boland Lightning) is a daily Worcester-Cape Town-Worcester commuter, here returning to Worcester in the late afternoon. The Boland and Worcester lie beyond the Hot... (more)

A work train returns to Bellville with a string of wagons carrying rail lengths.

Back to front with a mixed bag of wagons en route to the Bellville yard. It's apparent from the dried grass that summer has arrived and the Cape's rainy season is over.

Two Class 6E's and two 6E1's, the fourth unit dead in tow, enter Laingsburg across the Buffels River Bridge with a mixed goods train.

Friendly waves from the crew of the Premier Classe to me and the crew of a container train waiting in the siding.

A grain train with a lone tank wagon included and hauled by Class 6E's E1206, E1197 and E1176 under control of driver Willie Knecht of Beaufort West, enters Laingsburg Station across the Buffels R... (more)

A Karoo meet at Palmiet siding on the line between Laingsburg and Beaufort West, with the two loco consists forming a mirror image of each other. The usually arid Karoo is in full bloom after a v... (more)

Class 6E E1173 approaching Bellville with a mixed goods train.

Vandalism any way one looks at it, but I must admit that some graffiti is less of an eyesore than most.