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Owner: South African Railways
Model:UCW 6EBuilt As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:UCW E1200/1970Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Other locos with this serial:  SAS E1200(6E)
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SAS E1200
Title:  SAS E1200
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/10/2009  Upload Date: 5/10/2009 9:27:48 AM
Location:  Vereeniging,GP, ZA
Author:  Logan Stone
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Locomotives:  SAS E1200(6E)
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SAR Class 6E E1200
Title:  SAR Class 6E E1200
Description:  In 1970 and 1971 the South African Railways placed eighty Class 6E electric locomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from E1146 to E1225. Two more were built for the Sishen iron ore mine. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by Associated Electrical Industries and English Electric. Compared to the Class 5E1, the Class 6E had improved traction motors and was equipped with electronic wheel slip detection.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E.
Photo Date:  9/28/2015  Upload Date: 10/24/2015 10:50:57 AM
Location:  Sentrarand, GP, ZA
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1200(6E)
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