Coasting past the Home signal, and into the station, is Umgeni Steam Railway's magnificently restored ex-SAR class 19D number 2685 "Wesley". This Station was closed in 1990 and all signals removed... (more)

Class 16DA 879 has just pulled out of the loop line and are about to run past the Metro set in the back onto which it will couple for the trip back to Cape Town.

Steaming through Gillitts Station, 19D 2685 starts to attack the bank up to Emberton, and then on to Hillcrest.

Dawn finds NGG16's Nos 153 and 113 performing a photographic runpast as part of the 12-day 2014 Stars of Sandstone event. The programe will be repeated in 2015 over the 2nd to 12th April. For more... (more)

Atlantic Rail's class 16DA pulling a Metro set on a test run from Cape Town to Stellenbosch is seen here approaching just outside Stellenbosch.

Friends of the Rail's class 19D No.2650 poses for photographers.

Hillcrest Station was closed in 1992, all semaphore signals were removed and later the overhead cantenry in 2002. The building now serves as a restaurant called "Station Master's Arms".... (more)

Stars of Sandstone included a photographic program, and a number of dawn photo sessions were held. The sun had just risen above the sunflowers, ripening in the fields. The picture was taken in S... (more)

Stars of Sandstone is an annual event usually held around Easter. The afternoon train, which ran around the entire system was double-headed with ex South African Railways Garratt locomotives. Th... (more)

Friends of the Rail's pretty little Berkshire was designed and built after WWII to operate lightly laid branch lines. One hundred were built.

An authentic steam-era mixed goods and passenger train storms past the photographer during the annual Friends of the Rail's Photographic Weekend. FotR is the only organization in South Africa t... (more)

Friends of the Rail's classic South African Railways branch line locomotive at a classic photo location. There is nothing quite like steam locomotive photography on the South African Highveld on ... (more)

Steaming through Gillitts Station on a cold and wet day, see's Umgeni Steam Railway's Inchanga Choo Choo on the Lunchtime run to Inchanga.

Looking for all the world like it was 1972, this preserved GMAM hauls her train upgrade from Albert Falls towards Pietermaritsburg. She is still operated by Creighton Municipality.

Cityview was a favourite location for rail photography in South Africa into the early 1970s when these behemoths hauled a parade of trains around this horseshoe curve. Double-heading was not unco... (more)