page_title: South African Class 5E1, Series 5
section_title: Service
hierarchical_section_title: South African Class 5E1, Series 5 / Service
caption_attribution_description: English: SAR Class 5E1 Series 5 E994 number plateLocation: Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal
context_page_description: The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 5 of 1966 was an electric locomotive.
  Between 1966 and 1969, the South African Railways placed 225 Class 5E1, Series 5 electric locomotives with a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement in mainline service.
context_section_description: The Class 5E1 family served in goods and passenger working on all 3 kV DC electrified mainlines country-wide for about forty years. They worked the vacuum-braked goods and mainline passenger trains over the lines radiating south, west and north of Durban almost exclusively until the mid-1970s and the Class 6E1 only became regular motive power in Natal when air-braked car trains began running between Durban and the Reef. By the mid-2000s, most of the Series 5 locomotives had been withdrawn.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_African_Class_5E1,_Series_5&action=edit&section=4
caption: builder's plate
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