Early on a chilly winter morning in Lidgetton in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands and seven Class 18E locomotives, 18-199 / 18-416 / 18-127 / 18-243 / 18-602 / 18-652 / 18-177 (5½ pictured here), are D... (more)

PRASA have recently introduced a new passenger service between Johannesburg and Durban. The consist is a mix of their flagship "Premier Classe" and economy Shosholoza Meyl coaches. It le... (more)

18-603 heads this "Python", a load of 65 X C Type Wagons, used for either manganese or coal loads - in this case these are empties, through Umlaas Road. These "Pythons" are the biggest trains wor... (more)

Its a busy morning at PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl's New Durban Yard, just north of Durban Station, with three mainline passenger trains in Durban for the weekend. The last "Daylight Sitter" service d... (more)

With the sun dropping fast and the shadows growing longer late on a lovely winter afternoon, the luxury Blue Train, headed by 18-770 / 18-771, passes through the remains of Camperdown Station in K... (more)

A beautiful winter sunrise and 18-317, with a newly refreshed / painted cab end, is passing through Ashburton Station with a load of cement. The locomotives would have left their depot as light u... (more)

Two Class 6E1 units, headed by E1584, leave Bayhead (the biggest and busiest yard in Durban), for the short run back to their depot at Wentworth, having just cut off their load. E1584, has subseq... (more)

18-422 in her "Blue" PRASA livery, together with 18-412 ("Purple" Shosholoza Meyl livery) are bang on time as they leave Lidgetton Station behind them with the Sunday morning return service of the... (more)

Late on a beautiful autumn afternoon and Class 18E locomotives, 18-780 / 18-524 / 18-220, have just passed through Frere Station with a loaded grain train. The train is running contra flow across... (more)

With a crossover set up ahead due to track maintenance, 18-266 has slowed to a crawl with this load of predominantly cement wagons and a few empty STJ (Timber) wagons at the back. The train is pi... (more)

18-052, who was probably at the time, the dirtiest and most faded of her class that I had seen and much in need of a new paint job, starts the climb away from Frere Station up towards Chieveley an... (more)

Down in the valley, 18-506, with a load of containers, is passing through the largely dairy producing area of Mooi River in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. The train left Durban about 3½ hours earli... (more)

E8048 / E8051 are two examples of their Class (Class 8E Centre Cab Electric Shunting Locomotives) that remain in service as of November 2014. Originally 100 of these locomotives were placed in se... (more)

PRASA / Shosholoza Meyl in Durban's Class 36 shunter, 36-215, about to couple onto the two Class 18E units (18-404 & 18-415), that had just arrived in Durban from Johannesburg with the Trans Natal... (more)

Sunday morning at New Durban Yard and 36-251 enjoys some quiet time before her afternoon duty of reassembling the "Trans Natal" behind her and shunting the train down to Durban Station, for the ea... (more)