Beginning in 2000 Spoornht embarked on a program to rebuild dual cab Class 6E1, Series 2 to Series 11 locomotjves 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 included the installation of Alsthom micro-processor control technology and vas done by Transwerk (later Tqansnet Rail Engineering and then Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs tere stripped of all controls in orddr to have a toilet installed.
18-231 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 7 E1797 and commissioned in 2005.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 1. |