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Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet.It was part of the South African Railways and Harbours Administration, a state-controlled organisation that employed hundreds of thousands of people for decades from the first half of the 20th century and was widely referred to by the initials SAR&H (SAS&H in Afrikaans).
Initially, Metrorail was an operating unit of Spoornet, Transnet's rail subsidiary; in 1996 it became a separate business unit of Transnet. Long-distance passenger rail services, meanwhile, were operated by Spoornet (now Transnet Freight Rail) under the name Shosholoza Meyl.
The rail network of South Africa. Two public companies operate freight and commuter services: Transnet Freight Rail and PRASA, respectively.Transnet Freight Rail is the largest division of Transnet, a State-Owned Company (SOC) wholly owned by the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the custodian of rail, ports, and pipelines.
The Transnet Freight Rail Class 18E, Series 2 of 2009 is a South African electric locomotive.. In 2000, Spoornet embarked on a program to rebuild Class 6E1, Series 6 to 11 locomotives to Class 18E, Series 1 locomotives.
On 1 April 1990, a new company representing a vast transportation network was born, and appropriately named TRANSNET. Transnet Limited is a public company of which the South African Government is the sole shareholder. [9] Transnet is currently made up of: Transnet Freight Rail (formerly Spoornet) Transnet Engineering (formerly Transwerk)
This list shows past and current rail transport locomotive classes used in South Africa. It includes locomotives from all original operators: Cape Government Railways (CGR) Cape Town Railway and Dock (CTR&D) Central South African Railways (CSAR) Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika (DSWA) Imperial Military Railways (IMR) Kowie Railway; Metropolitan ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... South Africa: Delivered: ... The Transnet Freight Rail Class 44-000 of 2015 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive ...
Beginning in 2000, Spoornet began a project to rebuild Series 2 to 11 Class 6E1 locomotives to Class 18E, Series 1 and Series 2 at the Transnet Rail Engineering workshops at Koedoespoort. In the process the cab at the no. 1 end was stripped of all controls and the driver's front and side windows were blanked off to have a toilet installed ...