At the time of writing this (June 2007), there are still a few locations where you can see mechanical signalling in South Africa. Even into the 1990s, there were still long stretches of line where you could see the traditional wayside country station with signal box, and the impressive gantry of three home signals at each of the station, allowing entrance into the main line or the two passing loops. However, the fall-off in traffic and the use of radio signalling saw much of this pass into history during the 1990s. The remaining locations are mostly suburban and peri-urban, where Centralised Traffic Control hasn't been employed yet, but the traffic is too heavy for radio signalling.

This page has pictures of some of these remaining locations as well as other vestiges of the great legacy of mechanical signalling that opened up the country, and was a familiar site to many people going on their holidays, or maybe even starting a new life in another town.