KZN Metrorail's Business Express gets a trail trip test run pulled by class 6E1 towards Pietermaritzburg.

18-415 / 18-422 are heading out of Durban through Ashburton Station with a Johannesburg bound "Daylight Sitter" service. Lack of passenger support seems to have been the reason for this... (more)

18-221 is busy working down gradient with an empty Car Train around the top loop at Boughton in Pietermaritzburg. At this point the train is midway through a 180 degree directional turnback on it... (more)

18-619, with the help of three of her classmates, is heading this heavy coal train down through the steep and very twisty section around Boughton / Boughton Station on the way down to Pietermaritz... (more)

Leaving Durban and bound for Kazerne in Johannesburg is 18-609 with a load of containers, crossing the Mkondeni Viaduct in the section between Ashburton and Pietermaritzburg.

18-524 is running contra flow while passing through the cutting out of Ashburton Station here, heading Transnet Freight Rail's brand new (the first two of six ordered) imported 160T breakdown cran... (more)

Another sunrise one from the Pentrich Viaduct in Pietermaritzburg. 18-036 is Durban bound with a car train. The consist had two types of car carrier wagons in it. Type CML were at the front (th... (more)

Just after a very hazy winter sunrise (we need rain badly), as Class 18E Series 1, 18-008, heads this Durban bound train with a load of export steel coils across the Pentrich Viaduct in a very dry... (more)

18-055 / 18-667 / 18-229 (dead unit) run contra flow down through the steep gradients of Boughton / Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg with a short load of almost all Maersk containers.

18-283 assisted by four additional units has just crossed the Mkondeni Viaduct with a long load of 65 Type CAR wagon empties, which were picked up at Cato Ridge a little earlier.

This short train of 21 empty grain wagons (various types) is busy crossing the Mkondeni Viaduct in the section between Ashburton and Pietermaritzburg as it leaves Durban.

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)

A very unusual train consist! Pictured here while stopped at Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg, with this special pantograph recovery train, is Class 5E1 Series 5 locomotive, E1102 (originally... (more)

It's mid morning on a sweltering summer day in Pietermaritzburg, as 18-506 crosses the Pentrich Viaduct with a double stack Car Train bound for Bayhead in Durban.

18-236 is in charge of this Container Train (45 wagons) as it passes down gradient through Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg bound for Durban. The Natal Main line was very busy today and conta... (more)