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South African Class 91-000
🇿🇦 South Africa ·built by GE Transportation· from 1973· diesel-electric locomotive class
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SAR Class 91-000 91-002: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Class 91-000 no. 91-003: User:Peter Bagshawe· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Class 91-000 91-010: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Class 91-000 91-019: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Class 91-000 91-020: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. SAR Class 91-000 91-003: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. SAR Class 91-000 91-004: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. SAR Class 91-000 91-005: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. SAR Class 91-000 91-006: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. SAR Class 91-000 91-007: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The South African Railways Class 91-000 of 1973 was a narrow-gauge diesel–electric locomotive. Between September and December 1973, the South African Railways placed twenty Class 91-000 General Electric type UM6B diesel–electric locomotives in service on its narrow-gauge Avontuur Railway between Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape and Avontuur in the Western Cape. Some of them later also worked on the Alfred County Railway out of Port Shepstone in KwaZulu-Natal.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 53 years ago, in 1973.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1973
- in service from
- 1973
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- builders
- GE Transportation
- designer
- General Electric
- operators
- Transnet Freight Rail
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 610 mm 2 ft narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- weight
- 48 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2204915, Wikipedia: South African Class 91-000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.