Track Lifting.  

•  Lifting of railway line from the section between Donnybrook and Umzinto. These are sections of line left over by the contractors who were awarded the tender for lifting the line. Their contract had expired in March 2001 and they continued to illegally lift line up to October. The PCNGR pointed this out to Spoornet and the contractor was eventually stopped from lifting line in November. Initially R 1 500 000 worth of railway line scrap value was saved from being cut up for scrap by the PCNGR. This figure has now grown to over R 3 000 000.

• Much of the line left by the contractors is situated in rough terrain and is difficult to locate and extract. The line is covered by land slides in places and this has to be cleared by hand. In many places the line is covered with dense vegetation and this too has to be cleared first before the line can be loosened and transported to the load site where the material is stacked for transport.

• More railway line, sleepers and 4 sets of points discovered buried at Masonite January and February 2004.

• Track Lifting Photo History

Track Laying 

• There is a total of some 10 km of railway line that needs to be laid before Umzimkulu is reached - the original line was sold by Alfred County Railway to the Welsh Highland Railway. These sections of railway line are being replaced often with very little labour and resources because of the lack of finance available.

• As finance became available the track laying and restoration of track sleepers and bed was speeded up.

• Relaying line and points at  Allwoodburn Station.

•  Repairing bridge at Forest Glen

• Relaying track to Madonela - Umzumkulu

• The turntable

Track laying is continuing and some 2 km of track towards Umzimkulu has been replaced.

• Track Laying Photo History

 Locomotives:

• The 4 cylinder Diesel Hunslet ex Doornkop. Much of the piping and exhaust systems has been cut and stolen by thieves. There are a number of steam locomotives which will be restored over time:

• Restoration of  Hunslet  by Locomotive works Port Shepstone South Africa

• Wheels loaded onto Julian Pereira's double cab and trailer borrowed from Erskine Foster. Other members of PCNGR were reluctant to use their vehicles.

• The Sugar Cane Loco at Mason's mill.

• Boiler retored and mounted. The UVE 2 is waiting for the side tanks which are being restored by Duys Engineering Pinetown

•  The Bagnall

• Cost of restoration of the Bagnall is too high at this stage. This loco will be restored at a later stage.

• The NGG 11 no 55

• The NGG 11 from Weenen to Ixopo

• Loading the NG11 at Weenen

• Boiler at Rosslyn Pretoria being restored by SGE engineering.

• Restored boiler.

•  The NG4 at Port Shepstone being restored by Sandstone.

• The Avonside being restored at Stevens Mechanical

Coaches and Wagons

• First Coach  being restored at Masons Mill

• Second Coach restored at Masons Mill

• Guards van restored at Masons Mill

• B Wagon restored at Allwoodburn Ixopo

• D Z restored at Allwoodburn Ixopo

Sheds At Allwoodburn

• Alwoodburn before

• Alwoodburn after sheds have been erected. Large locomotive shed was originally the Richmond goods shed which had been vandalised

Building at Ncalu - the MidIlovo station building is rescued by PCNGR

• Site for erecting the Mid Ilovo Station building at Ncalu 

The Creighton Project

• Creighton Project

Stainton Siding now restored

• The first siding out of Ixopo - Stainton has been restored to a siding. The original sign was located on a neighbouring farm.

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