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Owner: South African Railways
Model:UCW 7E2Built As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:UCW E7171/1982Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Notes:Series 1
Other locos with this serial:  SAS E7171(7E2)
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SAR Class 7E2 E7171 (Series 1)
Title:  SAR Class 7E2 E7171 (Series 1)
Description:  In 1982 the South African Railways placed twenty-five Class 7E2, Series 1 25 kV AC electric locomotives with a Co-Co wheel arrangement in mainline service, numbered in the range from E7151 to E7175. It was designed by the 50 c/s Group (ACEC, AEG-Telefunken, Siemens, Alsthom-Atlantique, Société MTE and Brown Boveri) and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal. The Class 7E2, Series 1 can be visually distinguished from the Series 2 by the vertical grilles just to the rear of the driver’s window on both sides on Series 2 locomotives, but absent on Series 1.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 7E2, Series 1.
Photo Date:  5/14/2013  Upload Date: 6/24/2013 4:55:46 PM
Location:  Pyramid South, Pretoria, GP, ZA
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E7171(7E2)
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