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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).
It operates various train routes across South Africa, [1] carrying approximately 4 million passengers annually. [2] Before 2009, Shosholoza Meyl was a division of Spoornet, but it was transferred after the formation of PRASA. "Shosholoza" is the name of a popular South African song about workers on a train and it therefore means moving forward ...
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.
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The rebuilding to Class 18E, Series 1 was done by Transwerk, later renamed Transnet Rail Engineering (TRE) and then Transnet Engineering (TE), at its Koedoespoort workshops in Pretoria. The rebuilding to Series 1 locomotives ceased in 2009, with 446 units rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 6 to 11 locomotives, numbered in the ranges from 18-001 to ...
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)
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.
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 ...