18-183, and a load of containers / container flats, is soaking up the early winter afternoon sun while staged at Lions River Station in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands. Lions River Station is the best kept station on the Natal Main Line and is frequently used for crew changes / the remanning of both passenger and goods / freight trains. Lions River is also notorious in South African (Political) History, for being the area in which Nelson Mandela was captured in 1962, before being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial, for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the South African Government. A great spot to watch trains from.
