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SAR Class 5M Coach (Side B) |
| Description: |
Most Class 5M commuter coaches have two sets of driver controlled sliding doors. This is one of several coaches that were derailed in 1975 when the train was sideswiped by a shifted load on a goods train passing on the opposite line.SAR Class 5M2A, SAR Type S-68-T, Length over headstocks 60'3 5/8" (18.380m), Height 12'0" (3.660m), Width 9'3" (2.820m). |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1975 Upload Date: 1/16/2007 3:19:04 PM |
| Location: |
Olifantsfontein, GP |
| Author: |
Col Andre Kritzinger |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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SAR Class 6E1 E1550 (Series 5) |
| Description: |
In 1974 and 1975 the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 6E1, Series 5 electric locomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from E1546 to E1645. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by the General Electric Company (GEC). One of them, E1600, was later withdrawn from revenue service and rebuilt to an experimental 25 kV AC locomotive. Apart from the narrower stirrup step below the side doors of Series 3 number E1345 and earlier locomotives, Series 3 to Series 5 locomotives are visually indistinguishable from each other.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E1, Series 5. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1975 Upload Date: 3/4/2009 8:16:01 PM |
| Location: |
Olifantsfontein, GP |
| Author: |
Col André Kritzinger |
| Categories: |
Roster |
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SAS E1550(6E1) |
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