After passing through Skansdam junction on to the Sentrarand avoiding line, this northbound container train is crossing the Klip (stone) river on an embankment which will also carry it across Joan... (more)

A Friends of the Rail day excursion to the diamond mining town of Cullinan, east of Pretoria, works up the grade from Hercules to Capital Park behind ex- SAR class 24 2-8-4 no. 3664.

Only five of the intended one hundred class 39-000 diesels were rebuilt by Transnet Rail Engineering from class 34-600 and 34-800 locomotives, before the project was abandoned in favour of buildin... (more)

With no load on offer, this pair of class 18E's is running light engine through Dryden, heading east to Witbank. The leading locomotive is 18-011, one of the first series of 18E's rebuilt from 6E1... (more)

Rovos Rail's ex- South African Railways class 19D 4-8-2 hauls the Pretoria - Cape Town train out of the yard at Capital Park, to place it alongside the platform for passenger boarding. The semapho... (more)

Rovos Rail's ex- South African Railways class 19D 4-8-2 moves away from the passenger platform at their Capital Park depot. The locomotive is named "Shaun" after owner Rohan Vos' son. Photograph t... (more)

This little 16-ton Funkey diesel is used for shunting duties around the Rovos Rail depot at Capital Park in Pretoria. Above the locomotive, the Brazilian and Belgian flags flutter in the breeze on... (more)

A Gautrain Bombardier Electrostar 4-car EMU is about to duck under the Plane Road bridge as it races downgrade past the cooling towers of the Kelvin power station, en route to Sandton from O.R.Tam... (more)

Empty motor car carriers bound for Durban behind a pair of class 18E's, cross the Mooi River just south of the town with the same name, in the kwaZulu-Natal midlands.

Masses of cosmos flowers in bloom amongst the maize fields of the eastern highveld provide some added colour to this scene of a class 35-600 in faded blue Spoornet livery and two 35-200's in TFR r... (more)

Fresh out of Transnet Engineering's Koedoespoort workshops, these class 18E rebuilds in the new Transnet Freight Rail livery, bask in the morning sun in Springs yard while waiting for their next a... (more)

Plasserail's IM2000 Infrastucture Measuring Vehicle slowly makes its way through Springs yard, while three class 35 EMD units wait their turn to depart with a train of anhydrous ammonia tankers bo... (more)

Ready to depart from Springs yard, a class 35-600 in faded blue Spoornet livery is teamed up with two 35-200's to work a block load of Anhydrous Ammonia tankers to Trichardt on the Springs - Betha... (more)

A matched set of four class 10E1 3kV DC Co-Co locomotives in the Spoornet orange livery, running through a deep cutting at Rietvleirus west of Ermelo, with a 100 wagon train of coal empties return... (more)

On a beautiful autumn afternoon, four class 10E1 3kV DC Co-Co locomotives, led by 10-135 in Spoornet orange livery, climb the long grade out of the valley west of Ermelo, with a 100 wagon train of... (more)