Two class 33's are working hard up the grade with a Rovos Rail train, having just left the town of George in the distance behind the trees, currently on a 9 day trip from Pretoria to Cape Town.

The crew perform a blowdown on this most photographed bridge, while the waves of the Indian Ocean break on the sand below.

The George-Knysa line had been declared the line for permanent steam operation by Transnet. This class 24 was one of the regular locomitives on this line. Sadly this line has not been re-opened ... (more)

The folded features of the northern slopes of the Swartberg (Black Mountains) form the backdrop for a runpast on the Union Limited Railway Touring Company 2000 charter.

Class 24 No 3675 earns the curses of local housewives as she smokes it up in preparation of the climb out of the Goukamma valley to the summit at Keytersnek.

14 CRB 1882 doubleheads with GEA 4023 on a David C. Rodgers Tour charter goods out of Oudtshoorn. Sadly No. 1882 was destined only to survive for another 2 months... After a post-maintenance run-i... (more)

Two Class 24s cross the Knysna Lagoon on the approach to the station. The boat in the foreground was long a feature of the lagoon. The cat is a metal cut-out, meant to frighten birds. It was no... (more)

The GEA Garratt locomotives were the regular motive power on this specatcular pass until the mid-1970s. The Indian Ocean can be seen in the background.

The sole surviving Class 19B just before arrival at Knysna Station with the regular passenger service.

The morning George-Knysna goods train crosses the lagoon before entering Knysna Station. This was the last scheduled steam-hauled goods train on the South African Rail system.

Some railway locations in South Africa have powerfully descriptive names. The Oudtshoorn - Klipplaat line has its share: 'Oven', 'Solitree', and 'Eensaam', the last name meaning 'Lonely' in Afrika... (more)

Laughing Waters dam was built by the South African Railways to supply water for locos at Willowmore on the Oudtshoorn-Klipplaat line. The steam is long gone and dam now supplies Willowmore. Here w... (more)

A special from Port Elizabeth to Kynsna, is on the Kliplaat-Oudtshoorn stretch - July 1983. See 323583 for a shot taken right after this one.

An Oudtshoorn-bound special in July 1983, inside Toorwaterpoort, a huge cleft (and photographer's paradise) in the Swartberg Mountains.

An Oudtshoorn-bound special in July 1983.