Sheltam is a locomotive hire and repair company that undertakes complete operating contracts and maintenance contracts, based in Port Elizabeth,

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

. By the year 2000, Sheltam locomotives were operating at Randfontein Estates Gold Mine in

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, and in Mpumalanga at Douglas and Vandyksdrift Collieries and at SAPPI, Ngodwana. They also operated on

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branch in KwaZulu-Natal and on

Kei Rail Kei Rail is a railway project in South Africa. The Eastern Cape government restored rail services between AmaBhele and Mthatha, on an abandoned branch from the East London- Springfontein main line. Infrastructure was rebuilt, and passenger servi ...

in the Eastern Cape. Outside South Africa they operate on the Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (BBR), NLL and Railway Systems of Zambia (RSZ) lines through

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and

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and in the

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Locomotives

Locomotives owned or operated by Sheltam include: * Ex-

South African Class 31-000 The South African Railways Class 31-000 of 1958 was a diesel-electric locomotive. In June and July 1958, the South African Railways placed forty-five Class General Electric type U12B diesel-electric locomotives in service. They were later recl ...

* Ex-

South African Class 33-200 The South African Railways Class 33-200 of 1966 was a diesel-electric locomotive. Between October 1966 and May 1967 the South African Railways placed twenty Class 33-200 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GL26MC diesel-electric locomot ...

* Ex-

South African Class 34-200 The South African Railways Class 34-200 of 1971 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Between October 1971 and March 1972, the South African Railways placed fifty Class 34-200 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GT26MC diesel-electric locom ...

References

External links

Company website
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