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"Shosholoza" is a traditional miner's song, originally sung by groups of men from the Ndebele ethnic group that travelled by steam train from their homes in Zimbabwe (formerly known as Rhodesia) to work in South Africa's diamond and gold mines.
The 3 kV DC Class 6E1, Series 6 electric locomotive was designed and built for the South African Railways (SAR) by Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. The electrical equipment was supplied by GEC Traction's factories in Manchester and Sheffield UK, part of the General Electric Company (GEC).
"Shosholoza" is the name of a popular South African song about workers on a train and it therefore means moving forward. "Meyl" is a word that is related to a South African word for "long distance train", according to the Spoornet/Shosholoza Meyl website. The company's name prior to change was "Mainline Passenger Services".
AOL Hometown was a web hosting service offered by AOL.It offered 12 megabytes of server space for AOL subscribers to publish their own websites, and included a 10-step form-driven page creator called 1-2-3 Publish [2] [3] and a WYSIWYG online website builder called Easy Designer, [4] neither of which required knowledge of HTML (AOLpress had been AOL's website builder before the introduction of ...
Builder: Union Carriage & Wagon ... at Beaufort West in August 2007 E7061 in Spoornet maroon livery at Beaufort West in September 2009 No. E7010 in PRASA’s ...
Team Shosholoza is a yacht racing team representing Royal Cape Yacht Club of Cape Town, South Africa, competing in the 2007 America's Cup.. The name Shosholoza refers to a popular South African indigenous song and is used in an attempt to encompass the African spirit of "pushing and pulling together".
The South African Railways Class 6E1, Series 5 of 1974 was an electric locomotive.. Between 1974 and 1976, the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 6E1, Series 5 electric locomotives with a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement in mainline service.
Builder's plate The 3 kV DC Class 6E1, Series 7 electric locomotive was designed and built for the South African Railways (SAR) by Union Carriage & Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. The electrical equipment was supplied by the General Electric Company (GEC).