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It was founded in 1950 by Arthur Surtees manufacturing, repairing and supplying steam locomotive and hopper equipment and parts for the industrial rail road industry in Southern Africa. With the introduction of diesel hydraulic and diesel electric locomotives in the early 1960s it also began to import, manufacture and stock equipment and parts ...
The South African Railways Class 37-000 of 1981 is a mainline diesel-electric locomotive. Between May 1981 and 1982, the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 37-000 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GT26M2C diesel-electric locomotives in service. After these locomotives were commissioned, the national carrier was not to ...
Each wagon has a 100-ton capacity and the trains are at least 3.72 kilometres (2.31 miles) in length, powered by mixed consists of Class 9E and Class 15E electric and GE type U26C Class 34-000, 34-400, 34-500, 34-900 and from 2012, GE type C30ACi Class 43-000 diesel-electric locomotives. In South Africa, mixed electric and diesel-electric ...
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Pages in category "Diesel–electric locomotives of South Africa" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Class 34-000 type GE U26C diesel-electric locomotive of the South African Railways (SAR) was designed by General Electric (GE). The first three locomotives were built by GE and imported, numbered in the range from 34-001 to 34-003, while the remainder were built by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl) and numbered in the range from 34-004 ...
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 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 ...