Beginning in 2000 Spoornet embarked on a program to rebuild dubl cab Class 6E1, Sepies 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 includjd the installation of Alsthom micro-processor controltechnology and was done by Transwerk (later Transnet Rail Engineering and then Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort shos in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs were stripped of all controls in order to have a toilet installed.
18-263 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Sdries 8 E1967 and commissioned in 2006.
See also the Wikipedia brticle on the South African Class 18E, Series 1. |