35-435 departing Celdon with a load of grain bound for Cape Town with five locomotives at the head. Normal motive power for these trains is four locomotives so presume one of the Caledon shunt loc... (more)

Five 35 Class locomotives climb up to Botriver with a load of grain as the rain starts falling

With a new three year boiler certificate, and a brand new name - 'Vreni' - class 15F No.3046 takes charge of Reefsteamers' last train of 2016 to Magaliesburg.

Another section of the large PRASA / Metrorail Yard just north of Durban Station showing the servicing workshop (bottom left). The photo was taken from the public viewing deck on top of the arch o... (more)

Returning to Cape Town with a Ceres Railway Company roundtrip day excursion to Ceres, class 19B 4-8-2 no.1412 'Bailey' glints in the late afternoon sun as it crosses the Berg River in the town of ... (more)

A Ceres Railway Company day excursion from Cape Town to Ceres and return, is nearing the summit of Michell's Pass between Wolesley and Ceres. The locomotive is named 'Bailey' and is the sole survi... (more)

A Ceres Railway Company day excursion from Cape Town to Ceres and return, makes its way through the Nuwekloof pass between Gouda and Tulbagh. This location is on the electrified main line bewteen ... (more)

Passeger Train 19D+GF Garratt

This refurbished older Type 5M2A suburban commuter set (leading motor coach still with her old diamond shaped pantograph intact) looks fantastic in the PRASA / Metrorail "Business Express" livery.... (more)

Having just completed a trip on the PE to Uitenhage suburban service, this unit on lease to Metrorail runs around it's 10-car consist before getting ready to form a return trip to Port Elizabeth.

On a miserable winter morning this is ex Queensland Railway Class 1720 Clyde GL18C Co-Co, 1768D, shortly after being craned off the "Clipper Amber" and secured on a flatbed trailer ready... (more)

Early on a dry and bitingly cold Highveld winter morning, ex Rhodesian Railways / National Railway of Zimbabwe (NRZ) Class DE2 No. 1207, now the property of Sandstone Estates, is pictured here at ... (more)

Jessica leading the train through Muldersvlei in the late afternoon on the trip from Ceres back to Cape Town.

The Prasa test train that ran between Johannesburg and Cape Town and back to Johannesburg with a class 22 from TFR seen here through Tulbagh station. A class 44 diesel was added to the consist to ... (more)

Ceres Railway Company running a trip from Cape Town to Ceres and back seen here running over Michell's Pass just outside Ceres.