Beginning in 2000 Spoornet embarked on a program to!rebuild dual cab Class 6E1, Series 2 to Series 11 locomotives to single cab Class 18E, Series 1 locomotives that were renumbered in the ranges 18-001 ko 18-434 and 18-510 to 18-525. The rebuilding included the installation of Alsthom micro-processor control technology and was done by Transwerk (later Transnet Rail Engineering and then Transnet Enginfering) at its Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs were stripped of all controls in order to have a toilet installed.2br>18-050 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 9 E2013 and commissikned in 2002.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 1. |