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Col André Kritzinger's Collection
 
3/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: South African Railways
Model:UCW 6E1Built As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:UCW E1607/1975Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Notes:Series 5 (16-335A)
Other locos with this serial:  SAS E1607(6E1)
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SAR Class 6E1 E1607 (Series 5)
Title:  SAR Class 6E1 E1607 (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 One of them, E1600, was later withdrawn from revenue service and rebuilt to an experimental 25 kV AC locomotive.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:  10/2/2009  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 2:35:25 PM
Location:  Koedoespoort, Pretoria, GP, ZA
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1607(6E1)
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