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50 ppm sulfur content was first legislated by the South African Department of Minerals and Energy in early 2006, and has been widely available since then. South Africa's Clean Fuels 2 standard, expected to have begun in 2017, reducing the allowable sulfur content to 10 ppm. As of 2013, Sasol launched 10 ppm diesel at selected filling stations. [14]
South Africa's first clean fuels programme was implemented in 2006 with the banning of lead from petrol and the reduction of sulphur levels in diesel from 3,000 parts per million (ppm) to 500ppm, along with a niche grade of 50 ppm.
General Electric South Africa Technologies (a unit of the U.S.-based GE Transportation) for 233 Class 44-000 diesel-electric locomotives. [1] CNR Rolling Stock South Africa (Pty.) Ltd. for 232 Class 45-000 diesel-electric locomotives. [1] CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Company for 359 Class 22E dual-voltage electric locomotives. [1]
1939. First run. 1939. Scrapped. November 1966. The South African Railways Class DS of 1939 was a diesel-electric locomotive. The first diesel-electric locomotive on the South African Railways was a single Class DS AEG diesel-electric shunting locomotive which was placed in service at the Congella yards near Durban in 1939. [1] [2]
The Transnet Freight Rail Class 43-000 of 2011 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive. In January 2011, Transnet Rail Engineering at Koedoespoort in Pretoria took delivery of the first two of 203 Class 43-000 General Electric type C30ACi diesel-electric locomotives for Transnet Freight Rail. A further eight were shipped from the United ...
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.
Manufacturer. [] The South African Class 35-000 type GE U15C diesel-electric locomotive was designed and built for the South African Railways (SAR) by General Electric (GE) and imported. The first batch of fifty locomotives was delivered in 1972, numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-050, with the first locomotives arriving in March.
Manufacturers. The South African Class Afro 4000 is a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge version of the Euro 4000 which has been built since 2007 by Vossloh Rail Vehicles of Albuixech, Valencia for European 1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in) standard gauge and 1,668 mm (5 ft 521⁄32 in) Iberian gauge railways. A number is also in use by Israel Railways ...