page_title: South African Class 5E1, Series 3
section_title: Identifying features
hierarchical_section_title: South African Class 5E1, Series 3 / Identifying features
caption_attribution_description: English: E775 Number Plate from a SAR 5E1 Electric Locomotive.
context_page_description: The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 3 of 1964 was an electric locomotive.
  In 1964 and 1965, the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 5E1, Series 3 electric locomotives with a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement in mainline service.
context_section_description: The locomotive had two cut-outs on the roofline on the roof access ladder side, but an unbroken roofline on the opposite side. The Series 3, 4 and 5 locomotives could be visually distinguished from earlier series by their three small square access panels on the lower sides above the battery box instead of the two larger rectangular access panels on the Series 1 and 2 locomotives. Like the Series 2, the Series 3 also had an additional rectangular access panel on the lower sides above the second axle from the left.
caption: Builder's plate
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