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Beginning in August 1980 the South African Railways placed one hundred and one Class 36-200 EMD SW1002 diesel-electric locomotives in service. In 1984 one Class 36-200 locomotive was also built for the Bophuthatswana
Bophuthatswana
Bophuthatswana , officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana was a Bantustan – an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity – and nominal parliamentary democracy in the northwestern region of South Africa...

 National Development Corporation, for use at the Ga-Rankuwa
Ga-Rankuwa
Ga-Rankuwa is a township located about 37 km north of Pretoria. Provincially it falls under Gauteng province but it used to be under North West Province, as it once fell under Bophuthatswana region ruled by Lucas Mangope under the apartheid regime....

 Industrial Estate. Three more were placed in service by Iscor in Pretoria between 1986 and 1991, and another two by the Ithala Development Finance Corporation in KwaZulu-Natal in 1987.

Manufacturers

The Class 36-200 type EMD SW1002 diesel-electric locomotive was designed for the South African Railways (SAR) by Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) and all but one were built by General Motors South Africa
General Motors South Africa
General Motors South Africa, or GMSA is a wholly owned subsidiary of American automobile manufacturer General Motors. It manufacturers and distributes automobiles under the Chevrolet, Opel and Isuzu brands...

 (GMSA) in Port Elizabeth. The exception was the third locomotive to be built for Iscor in Pretoria, which was delivered by GM-Astarsa
Astarsa
Astilleros Argentinos Río de La Plata S.A. was an argentinian shipyard. Its core business was built and repair of ships and locomotives. It also manufactured pipes, industrial machinery, and tractors...

 in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

.

The one hundred and one locomotives for the SAR were built in two batches, the first fifty between 1980 and 1981, numbered 36-201 to 36-250, and another fifty-one between 1982 and 1984, numbered 36-251 to 36-301. It is unclear why such an odd number of locomotives were ordered. Apart from the one hundred and one locomotives for the SAR, several were also ordered by and built for industry.
  • A single locomotive was built for the Bophuthatswana National Development Corporation (BNDC) in Ga-Rankuwa and delivered in 1984.
  • Two locomotives that were ordered by Iscor in Pretoria were delivered in 1986.
  • Two locomotives that were ordered by the Ithala Development Finance Corporation (IDFC) in KwaZulu-Natal were delivered in 1987.
  • The Argentinian built locomotive was delivered to Iscor by GM-Astarsa in 1991.

Class 36 series

South Africa’s Class 36 locomotive group consists of two series, the General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

 (GE) Class 36-000
South African Class 36-000
Between June 1975 and 1981 the South African Railways placed one hundred and twenty-four Class 36-000 GE SG10B diesel-electric locomotives in service.-Manufacturer:...

 and the EMD Class 36-200. Both these manufacturers also produced locomotives for the South African Classes 33, 34 and 35.

SAR-Spoornet-TFR

EMD Class 36-200s are general purpose locomotives, equipped with two station controls for bi-directional operation, that are used mainly for yard shunting and pickup work, servicing industrial customers. When placed in service, the SAR locomotives were initially distributed for service between the Western and Eastern Cape and the Eastern Transvaal Lowveld, but the Western Cape locomotives were later relocated to Natal, Gauteng, the Northwest and Limpopo.

Industry

The three Iscor locomotives were later hired out to African Rail and Traction Services (ARTS), based in a workshop at the Iscor Pretoria works. ARTS has a fleet of about twenty locomotives that are used on hire contracts. By ealy 2002 ARTS locomotives were working at the Rustenburg Platinum Mine in the North West Province, at Iscor in Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...

, where it took over the entire rail operation, and at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal
Richards Bay Coal Terminal
The Richards Bay Coal Terminal , located in the Richards Bay harbour, is the largest coal export facility in Africa. The Chinese port of Qinhuangdao maintains the largest coal exporting terminal in the world, at 209 Million tons compared to Richards Bay with 91 Million tons.Potential throughput is...

 (RBCT) in KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

.

The BNDC locomotive did not remain in service in Bophuthatwana very long before it went to Columbus Stainless in Middelburg, Transvaal.

The IDFC locomotives were later sold to Sheltam, where they were numbered 24 and 25 and later renumbered to 1003 and 1004.

Liveries

The main picture shows 36-201 in the Spoornet orange livery, at Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal, on 5 August 2007.


See also

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