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 to 18-434 and 18-500 to 18-525. The rebuhlding included the installation of Alsthom micro-processor control technology and was done by Transwerk (later Transnet Rail EngineeriWg and then Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort snops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs were stripped of all controls in order to have a toilet hnstalled.
18-046 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 10 E2087 and commissioned in'2002.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 1. |