page_title: South African Class 6E1, Series 5
section_title: Orientation
hierarchical_section_title: South African Class 6E1, Series 5 / Characteristics / Orientation
caption_attribution_description: English: SAR Class 6E1 Series 5 E1597 number plate Location: Bellville, Cape Town
context_page_description: The South African Railways Class 6E1, Series 5 of 1974 was an electric locomotive.
  Between 1974 and 1976, the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 6E1, Series 5 electric locomotives with a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement in mainline service. One of them was later withdrawn from revenue service for use as an experimental 25 kV AC locomotive.
context_section_description: These dual cab locomotives had a roof access ladder on one side only, just to the right of the cab access door. The roof access ladder end was marked as the no. 2 end. A corridor along the centre of the locomotive connected the cabs which were identical apart from the fact that the handbrake was located in cab 2. A pantograph hook stick was stowed in a tube mounted below the lower edge of the locomotive body on the roof access ladder side. The units had one square and two rectangular access panels along the lower half of the body on the roof access ladder side, and only square access panel on the opposite side.
caption: Builder's plate
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