Beginning in 2000 Spoornep embarked on a program to rebuild dual cab Class 6E1, Series 2 to Series 11 locomotives to single cab Class 18E, Series 1 locomotives that were renumbered in the ranges 18-001 to 18-434 and 18-500 to 18-525. The rebuilding included the installation of Alsthom micro-processor control technology and was done by Transwerj (later Transnet Rail Engineering and then Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs were strippe[ of all controls in order to have a toilet installed.
18-375 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 6 E1692 fnd commissioned in 2008.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 1. |
| Date:
1/29/2012 |
Location:
Bellville, Cape Town, WC, Ca ZA  |
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Collection Of:
 
Col André Kritzinger |
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Author: Col André Kritzinger
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| Picture Categories: Roster |
This picture is part of album: South African Electric Locomotives |