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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).
The Spoornet Class 38-000 of 1992 is a South African electro-diesel locomotive.. Between 1992 and 1994, Spoornet placed fifty Class 38-000 dual mode locomotives in service. . They are still the only dual powered electro-diesel locomotives in use by Transnet Freight Rail, capable of running either on 3 kV DC electricity off the catenary or on diesel fuel a
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)
The Spoornet Class 39-000 of 2006 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive from the Spoornet era. In 2005, Transwerk commenced a project of rebuilding one hundred existing locomotives to new Class 39-000 Electro-Motive Diesel type GT26CU-3 locomotives for Spoornet. Only five were eventually rebuilt and placed in service between April 2006 ...
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 ...
Beginning in 2000, Spoornet began a project to rebuild Series 2 to 11 Class 6E1 units 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, thereby ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... South Africa: Delivered: ... The Transnet Freight Rail Class 44-000 of 2015 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive ...