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Pictures of SAS E1566
Owner:
South African Railways
Model:
UCW 6E1
Built As:
Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:
UCW E1566/1975
Order No:
Frame Number:
Built:
Notes:
Series 5 (18-661)
Other locos with this serial:
SAS E1566(6E1)
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Title:
SAR Class 6E1 E1566 (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 One of them, E1600, was later withdrawn from revenue service and rebuilt to an experimental 25 kV AC locomotive.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.
E1566 re-entered service in 2011 as Class 18E, Series 2 number 18-661 after being rebuilt. See the Wikipedia article on the
South African Class 18E, Series 2.
Photo Date:
10/2/2009
Upload Date:
12/6/2009 2:27:45 PM
Location:
Koedoespoort, Pretoria, GP, Pr
Author:
Col André Kritzinger
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
SAS E1566(6E1)
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