Friends of the Rails branch line locomotives double-head the Diamond Express excursion train into Cullinan. This working formed part of the annual photographic weekend.

The sun rises on Friends of the Rails stalwart Class 19D at the start of the annual photographic weekend.

An accurate re-enactment of branch-line operations in the days of steam traction. The vehicle behind the locomotive is a vintage milk van, cooled by water from the roof tanks trickling through th... (more)

Friends of the Rails Class 24 pilots sister engine Class 19D No 2650 towards Rayton on the old Pretoria-Delagoa Bay mainline. At the end of our photographic weekend the mixed train and the excurs... (more)

In the gloom of the running shed at Germiston locomotive depot, an engine hand gets to work with the steam cleaning apparatus on a grimy class 15CA. The loco is in for a boiler washout as evidence... (more)

The standard light branch line engine of the SAR on a short mixed train during the recent photographic weekend.

Friends of the Rails Class 19D moves towards the ash pits during a recent photographic weekend.

A mixed goods and passenger train crosses the Kraai River Bridge on the last leg of the journey to Barclay East. Sadly, three years after this picture was taken the line was closed permanently.

The GMAM was the usual motive power on the line until the end of Steam in the early 1970s.

Originally designed as an express passenger engine, many of the members of this class spent the last years of their working lives working freight trains between Bloemfontein and Noupoort.

One tends to pick their path very carefully when walking to a photo spot here. The Cape Natal line into and out of Creighton was a wonderful venue for charters with this engine, but sadly Transne... (more)

The last working steam operations (non preservation) in South Africa. Saiccor No. 3 (Ex SAR Class 19D No. 2767) - Leaving the Saiccor Exchange Yard at Umkomaas with a load of timber for the short... (more)

The last of actual (non preservation) working steam operations in South Africa is carried out at the Saiccor Paper Mill at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast. This is Saiccor No. 1 working... (more)

Friends of the Rail's Berkshire makes a spectacular departure from her home depot with a short goods train. The rail on the left leads to the top of the coal stage, the last in working order on t... (more)