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Interior of a Metro Plus (1st class) car. The Class 5M2s operate on the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge track that is standard throughout Southern Africa. The motor coaches draw 3,000 volt direct current from an overhead pantograph; they have a power output of 925 kilowatts (1,240 hp) and produce 158 kN (15.9 LTf; 17.8 STf) of tractive effort.
In 1929 and 1930, the South African Railways placed eight Class GL Garratt articulated steam locomotives with a 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type wheel arrangement in service. Built by Beyer, Peacock & Company in Manchester , England, they were originally designed to work on the Durban to Cato Ridge section of the Natal mainline.
A multistorey car park in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic The interior of a shopping mall's parking garage in Kungälv, Sweden. A multistorey car park [1] [2] (Commonwealth English) or parking garage (American English), [1] also called a multistorey, [3] parking building, parking structure, parkade (), parking ramp, parking deck, or indoor parking, is a building designed for car, motorcycle ...
The original locomotive from which the Class 26 was rebuilt entered service in 1953 as the last of the Class 25NC 4-8-4 Northern type locomotives to be built. The Class 25 condensing and Class 25NC non-condensing locomotives were designed by the South African Railways (SAR) under the direction of L.C. Grubb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the SAR from 1949 to 1954, and in conjunction with ...
The numbering structure on plates will also then change. Concerning the foreign identification system within South Africa, foreigners are granted the permission to verify their number plate to the South African number plate system. The Department of Transport in South Africa has set aside R25 million for the project during the 2015/2016 fiscal ...
Until 1963, the standard dimensions of the SAR plates were 1 foot 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (464 millimetres) between bolt hole centres, with an overall width of 1 foot 8 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (527 mm) and height of 1 foot 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (368 mm).
The South African national network employs 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge. The maximum width of the rolling stock is 3,048 mm (10 ft 0 in) and maximum height is 3,962 mm (13 ft 0 in), [ 59 ] which is greater than the normal British loading gauge for standard gauge vehicles.
This list shows past and current rail transport locomotive classes used in South Africa. It includes locomotives from all original operators: ... 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ...