A Durban bound Rovos Rail set (luxury passenger train) is busy coming off the main line to make a scheduled stop at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Motive power for the regiona... (more)

Class 18E, 18-034, is crossing the steel bridge and about to swing righthanded into Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a load of containers. The train is bound for Kings Rest ... (more)

Having completed the climb up through Boughton in Pietermaritzburg, Class 18E, 18-408, is now climbing once again, while heading this Johannesburg bound container train up through Braeside and on ... (more)

Class 18E, 18-012, is supporting a heavy load of coal behind her as she rolls down the steep gradient through Boughton Station in Pietermaritzburg on her way to Cato Ridge / Durban. A variety of ... (more)

Snow in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, is rare in terms of it falling in areas that affect the Natal Main Line. Pretty heavy snow falls in July 2011 through Hidcote, Mooi River, Rosetta, Nottingham... (more)

18-376 with a load of containers is climbing up and away from Frere towards Chieveley. This is a lovely section of the Natal Main Line with a lot of the mastpoles / catenary (as pictured here) fr... (more)

Passing through Pentrich Station in on a very warm summer morning in Pietermaritzburg, Class 18E locomotives, 18-250 / 18-504 / 18-196, are bound for Kings Rest in Durban with a load of containers... (more)

Class 18E locomotives, 18-237 / 18-057 / 18-652, head a Durban bound double-stack car train under the road bridge into Pentrich Station in Pietermaritzburg. Sadly the beautiful Pentrich Station b... (more)

Early on a chilly winter morning in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands as 18-052 / 18-197 / 18-296 cross the Mooi River with a load of containers. The train had left Durban about 4 hours earlier and was b... (more)

Class 18E Series 1, 18-092, has almost completed the climb away from Rosetta to Mooi River in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with this load of containers bound for Kazerne in Johannesburg.

Heading down to the "sleepy hollow" in the centre of the photo. Late on a lovely spring afternoon and Class 18E locomotives, 18-236 / 18-506 / 18-416, begin to straighten out from the to... (more)

Sunrise at the PRASA (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) yard just north of Durban Station. Brand new to the PRASA Class 18E fleet at the time the photo was taken, 18-435 (with 18-434 coupled... (more)

Class 18E, 18-229, has just crossed the steel bridge and is making the right handed turn to pass through Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands with a load of tanker wagons. The train ... (more)

Late on a lovely spring afternoon and Class 18E locomotives, 18-236 / 18-506 / 18-416, begin to straighten out from the top balloon at Boughton in Pietermaritzburg and prepare for the next stage o... (more)

Class 18E, 18-388 (one of the lower numbered of this Class to have been put into the TFR red livery), heads this container train through Howick North, past Midmar Dam. The train is Johannesburg b... (more)