END OF THE LINE

An epic journey through the broken heart of abandoned railway infrastructure

A railway documentary

I started photographing stations at Kleinbegin in the Kalahari, and the project came to live at Agtertang in the Free State. I began to find a great deal of joy in the tracking down of abandoned or neglected rural railway infrastructure.

End of the line?
Voorhuis is one of five stations in an beautiful landscape between near the Boesmanspad linking Swellendam to Ashton
At Delmas station, Lewis Mahlangu collects coal fragments from the one track still working, ‘to sell for food’
Winkelplaas is little more than a single shed now used as a temporary church
Easter Sunday in Ogies
Making space for nature’s return at Groot Spelonke in Limpopo
An old Karoo farmhouse going much the same way as the railway infrastructure
What’s left of Marais can be found on the line between Aberdeen Road and Graaff-Reinet
Klipplaat in the Eastern Cape confirmed my theory that the greater the infrastructure the greater the damage
Willem Franse has made a tidy home in the corrugated store room at Fullarton
Badshoogte
The crude graffiti at many locations, like this underpass at Heidelberg station, tells unintended stories about rail infrastructure
Niekerkshek is just off the N2 highway on the line between Heidelberg and Swellendam
Plathuis was on the old Makadas line from Touwsrivier to Ladismith, but was decommissioned after much of the line was destroyed in the Laingsburg floods.

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