South african railways

For five days in 1991, the South African railways featured their steam locomotives on their mainline from Kimberly to De Aar in a celebration called the Grea...

High quality photograph of South African Railways - # - at Touws River - Western Cape, South Africa.

Some good old fashioned 15F stack talk features in this video, starting with some on-train shots of 3094 heading to Cullinan. The writing on the tender is t...

High quality photograph of South African Railways Steam 4-8-2+2-8-4 # Class GMAM No 4074 at Creighton, South Africa.

SAR, Kroonstad, South Africa, 1995 South African Railway (formerly Spoornet) electric locomotive no. 16E-422 in Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa, on March 30, 1995. Photograph by Fred M. Springer, © 2014, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Springer-So.Africa(1)-24-14

Early one morning we see Class 23 No. 3300 ripping across the plains towards Kimberley with a Union Limited special. Later in the afternoon 3300 returned to...

A Celebration of Images My special thanks to each of the photographers, who without hesitation, gave permission for their images to be shown in this blog entry. Usually this blog concerns itself with raising awareness about old cold and forgotten steam locomotives - hoping that, maybe, this will lead to more active preservation of some of these fascinating relics of the industrial revolution. However, when Shane Swartz inquired whether I would be interested in posting photos of Atlantic…

Giant South African Railway Locomotive service Welsh Highland to Caernarfon

High quality photograph of South African Railways Steam 4-8-4 # SAR 3421 at Kommandonek, South Africa.

Steam locomotive 4135 to be returned to steam in South Africa https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/11/steam-locomotive-4135-to-be-returned-to-steam-in-south-africa.html