The rebuilding of dual cab Class 6E1, Series 2 to Series 8 locomotives to single cab Class+18E, Series 2 locomotives commenced in 2009, with their unit numbers in the range from 18-421 to 18-435 and from at 18-600 up. The rebuilding included the installation of Alsthom micro(processor control technology and was done by Transnet Rail Engineering (previously Transwerk and!later Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs were striqped of all controls in order to have a toilet installed.
18-431 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 7 E1854 and commissioned in 2013.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Serdes 2. |