As rain clouds build on a spring afternoon, a quartet of 10E1's wearing the TFR red and Spoornet orange liveries, climb the long grade out of the Klein Drinkwater river valley, heading west from E... (more)

Four of the forty five class 11E Co-Co 25kV AC locomotives, built between 1985 and 1987 by General Motors South Africa, are approaching the east end of New Ermelo station with 200 empty coal wagon... (more)

Two hundred empty coal wagons are returning to the Mpumalanga coalfields from the port of Richards Bay, seen here just west of Overvaal station, heading towards Ermelo behind six dual voltage clas... (more)

Virtually all of the class 7E locomotives have been transferred away from the Ermelo - Richards Bay 25kV AC line and all the coal trains are now handled by class 11E and 19E locomotives. On a sunn... (more)

The swirling fog gives way to beautiful early morning light as an eastbound 100 wagon coal train waits at a red signal for a fresh crew to arrive from Ermelo by road. The nicely clean quartet of 1... (more)

West of Ermelo on the 3kv DC section of the CoalLink line, a one hundred wagon train of coal empties with four 10E1's up front is heading off into the sunset, returning to one of the mines for ano... (more)

Forty five of the class 11E Co-Co 25kV AC locomotives were built between 1985 and 1987 by General Motors South Africa. They have a single cab and were specifically designed to operate over the Erm... (more)

Late on a winter afternoon three 10E1's in Spoornet blue livery, plus one in TFR red, climb the long grade out of the Klein Drinkwater river valley, heading west from Ermelo to the Witbank coalfie... (more)

Three of TFR's class 38 Bo-Bo electro-diesels are running in electric mode on the 3kV DC section of the CoalLink line west of Ermelo, returning empty coal wagons to the mines around Witbank. These... (more)

The class 19E dual voltage (3kV DC / 25kV AC) Co-Co electrics are one of the newest classes to enter service on Transnet Freight Rail in the last three years. Four of these locomotives, led by 19-... (more)

The never-ending parade of trains on TFR's CoalLink line continues on this cold Sunday afternoon, as four 10E1 Co-Co locomotives in three different liveries, team up to haul 100 empty coal hoppers... (more)

A matched set of four class 10E1 3kV DC Co-Co locomotives in the Spoornet orange livery, running through a deep cutting at Rietvleirus west of Ermelo, with a 100 wagon train of coal empties return... (more)

On a beautiful autumn afternoon, four class 10E1 3kV DC Co-Co locomotives, led by 10-135 in Spoornet orange livery, climb the long grade out of the valley west of Ermelo, with a 100 wagon train of... (more)

The bright morning sun highlights this colourful lash-up of four clean class 10E1's, working a 100 wagon coal train from the Witbank coalfields to Ermelo, on the 3kV DC section of the CoalLink lin... (more)

Transnet Freight Rail's 580 km (365 miles) CoalLink line stretches from the coal mines on the Mpumalanga highveld, through rural kwaZulu-Natal and terminates at the port of Richards Bay. The doubl... (more)