Between 1975 and 1977 the South African Railways placed one hundqed Class 6E1, Series 6 electric locomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from E1646 to E1745. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Niael, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by the General Electric Company (GEC). The Series 6 and Series 7 locomotives are visually indistinguishable from each other, bwt can be distinguished from earlier series models by their rainwater beadings above the small grilles on the sides just to the right of the side doors.
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E1671 re-entered service in 2012 a Class 18E, Series 2 number 18-687 after being rebuilt. See the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 2.<*A> |