18-263 is Durban bound with a load of containers, having just exited the tunnel/s into Beacon Hill Station. The train would have undergone a crew change at Danskraal (Ladysmith) and then continued on towards Durban passing through places like Pieters, Colenso, Chieveley, Frere, Estcourt and around Wagon Drift Dam to Beacon Hill Station. About 4? hours remain of the journey down to Durban from here.