Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1987 and 1989 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 50 Class 10E1, Series 1 locomotives in service. The South African Class 10E1 Series 1 3kV DC electric locomotive was designed by GEC and built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. In a break with prior practice, builder's numbers were allocated to Class 10E1 locomotives. With the exception of the Class 9E, also a GEC locomotive, UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to previous locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 1927 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed two Class 18 2-10-2 steam locomotives in service. The South African Class 18 2-10-2 steam locomotive was designed and built by Henschel Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1914 and 1925 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 119 Class 15A 4-8-2 steam locomotives in service, delivered in ten batches from three manufacturers. The predecessor Class 15 locomotives had one flaw, excessively long firetubes. When more were ordered, SAR chief mechanical engineer D.A. Hendrie improved the boiler by adding a combustion chamber and shortening the distance between tube plates from 21 ft 9 in (6.629 m) to 19 ft (5.791 m) in the process. These locomotives became the Class 15A and were built in ten batches by three...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Southern is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Govia operating the South Central franchise. It is a subsidiary of Govia, a joint venture between transport groups Go-Ahead and Keolis, and has operated the South Central rail franchise since August 2001 and the Gatwick Express service since June 2008.
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1980 and 1981 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 50 Class 7E1 locomotives in service. The South African Class 7E1 25kV AC electric locomotive was designed by Hitachi and built by Dorbyl in South Africa. Like Union Carriage and Wagon, Dorbyl did not allocate builder's numbers to the locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other locomotive builders was to allocate builder's numbers or works numbers to record the locomotives built by them, Dorbyl simply used the SAR road numbers for their record...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The South Wales Gas Pipeline (also known as the Milford Haven pipeline) is the UK's largest high-pressure gas pipeline. The 197 mile (316 km) pipeline passing through Wales was built for the National Grid and links Dragon and South Hook liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire with the national gas network at Tirley, Gloucestershire.The pipeline was expected to cost around 700 million,and was, according to the National Grid, expected to transport around 20% of the gas needed to meet UK consumption in future. Construction of the pipeline was estimated to take approximately three years, aiming to end in October 2007....
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1938 and 1946 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 255 Class 15F 4-8-2 steam locomotives in service. The Class 15F was the most numerous steam locomotive class in SAR service. The Class 15F represented the ultimate stage in a long history of development spanning thirty years. The first Class 15 4-8-2 tender locomotive entered SAR service in 1914, sporting a 40 sq ft (3.716 m2) grate, a boiler pressure of 185 psi (1,280 kPa), a maximum axle load of 16.5 long tons (16.8 t) and 57 in (1,400 mm) drivers. Later orders incorporated major...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The South African Navy (SAN) is the navy of South Africa. The South African Navy can trace its official origins back to the SA Naval Service, which was established on 1 April 1922. The first ships acquired by the newly formed navy were HMSAS Protea (a hydrographic survey vessel), HMSAS Sonneblom and HMSAS Immortelle (both minesweeping trawlers). Unofficially, however, the SAN can trace its history even further back, to the Natal Naval Volunteers (NNV), which was formed in Durban on 30 April 1885 as well as to the Cape Naval Volunteers (CNV), which was formed in Cape Town in 1905. On 1 July 1913 these two units...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Southern Pacific Transportation Company (reporting mark SP), earlier Southern Pacific Railroad (1865-1885) and Southern Pacific Company (1885-1969), and usually simply called the Southern Pacific, was an American railroad. The railroad was founded as a land holding company in 1865, later acquiring the Central Pacific Railroad by lease. By 1900, the Southern Pacific Company had grown into a major railroad system which incorporated many smaller companies, such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad, and which extended from New Orleans through Texas to El Paso, across New Mexico and through Tucson, to Los Angeles, throughout most of California including...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1983 and 1984 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 50 Class 10E locomotives in service. The South African Class 10E 3kV DC electric locomotive was designed by Toshiba and built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to the locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other locomotive builders was to allocate builder's numbers or works numbers to record the locomotives built by them, UCW simply used the SAR road numbers for their record keeping....
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. South Amboy is a station on New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line located in South Amboy, New Jersey, United States. The station is 2 1/2 miles east of Perth Amboy station and 5 miles west of Aberdeen-Matawan station. Electric trains from the north started terminating here in 1938, and many still do. This station is located at grade level on Mason Street, and has two low side platforms with three tracks. South Amboy station recently finished being upgraded for ADA and handicap access. Phase one of this project included the building of a new pedestrian overpass allowing safe transfers across the two tracks...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-4161-0
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1981 and 1982 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 85 Class 6E1, Series 9 locomotives in service. The South African Class 6E1 Series 9 3kV DC electric locomotive was built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to the locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other locomotive builders was to allocate builder's numbers or works numbers to record the locomotives built by them, UCW simply used the SAR road numbers for their record keeping....
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1993 Amcoal, now Anglo Coal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anglo American, placed three Class E38 locomotives in service at its Landau Colliery near Witbank, Mpumalanga. The South African Class E38 3kV DC electric shunter locomotive was designed by Consortium under the leadership of Siemens and built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to the locomotives it built for Anglo Coal. While the practice by most other locomotive builders was to allocate builder's numbers or works numbers to record the locomotives built by them, UCW simply used the Amcoal road...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1919 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed ten Class 16C 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives in passenger train service. Twenty more were placed in service in 1921. The South African Class 16C 4-6-2 locomotive was designed by D.A. Hendrie, chief mechanical engineer of the SAR at the time, and built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, Scotland. They were identical to predecessors Class 16 and Class 16B in most respects, except that Hendrie had added a combustion chamber to the boiler, visible as an extension of the Belpaire firebox hump....
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1914 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 10 Class 15 4-8-2 steam locomotives in service. The Class 15 was introduced by SAR chief mechanical engineer D.A. Hendrie as a large mixed traffic locomotive for use where grades and curvature were less severe than on the coastal sections. Ten locomotives were built by North British and delivered in 1914. They had plate frames, Walschaerts valve gear, Belpaire fireboxes without combustion chambers and were superheated. In order to reduce the weight on the trailing wheels, steel fireboxes were used. This...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0844-6
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The South African Army Artillery Formation is the controlling entity of all South African Army artillery units. Due to a shortage of regular infantry, both 4 Artillery Regiment and 10 Air Defence Regiment have recently provided gunners deployed in their secondary role as line infantry in the central African region on peacekeeping duties. The South African Army is the army of South Africa, first formed after the Union of South Africa was created in 1910. The South African military evolved within the tradition of frontier warfare fought by popular militias and small irregular commando forces, reinforced by the...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0630-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1978 and 1979 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 25 Class 9E, Series 1 locomotives in service. The South African Class 9E Series 1 50kV AC electric locomotive was designed by GEC and built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. In a break with prior practice, builder's numbers were allocated to Class 9E locomotives. UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to previous locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other locomotive builders was to allocate builder's numbers or works numbers to...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-1917-6
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Southampton Central railway station is a main line railway station serving the city of Southampton in Hampshire, southern England. It is on the Wessex Main Line, the South Western Main Line and the West Coastway Line. Despite its name Southampton Central is in fact situated some distance from the centre of the city (a central area served by Southampton terminus station until 1967). The station is managed by South West Trains who operate the majority of services, including frequent trains to London Waterloo. Other operators are CrossCountry (providing services to Birmingham and beyond), First Great Western...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-9700-9
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1915 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed two Class 16A 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives in passenger train service. The South African Class 16A 4-6-2 locomotive was designed by D.A. Hendrie, chief mechanical engineer of the SAR at the time, and built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, Scotland. They were identical in all respects to their predecessor Class 16 that was delivered by North British a year earlier, except that they had four cylinders instead of the usual two. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0958-0
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1931 three 610 mm (2 ft) 2-8-2 locomotives, similar in design to their existing Class Hd and Class NG 5 locomotives, were built for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in South West Africa (SWA, now Namibia) by Henschel. More were purchased during the subsequent years, bringing the total number of these locomotives up to 21 by 1958. When the narrow gauge Otavi Railway was replaced, beginning on 24 November 1960, by a new line built to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge, all 21 Class NG 15 locomotives were sold to the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), and...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-2079-0
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1992 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 25 Class 10E2 locomotives in service. The South African Class 10E2 3kV DC electric locomotive was designed by Toshiba and built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to the locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other locomotive builders was to allocate builder's numbers or works numbers to record the locomotives built by them, UCW simply used the SAR road numbers for their record keeping. Данное...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0751-7
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The South African Air Force Museum houses, exhibits and restores material related to the history of the South African Air Force. The Museum is divided into three locations, AFB Swartkop outside Pretoria, AFB Ysterplaat in Cape Town and at the Port Elizabeth airport. Swartkop is the largest of the three museum locations, occupying at least five hangars. It contains a number of Atlas Cheetahs as well as a Cheetah C flight simulator. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0576-6
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The South African Class 15E 50 kV AC electric locomotive entered service in mid 2010 and work exclusively on the 50 kV AC Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line. The Class 15E is the product of a joint venture by Mitsui (design), Toshiba (electrical), the UCW Partnership (bodies) and the RSD division of DCD-Dorbyl (bogies and drawgear). It was locally manufactured by the UCW Partnership in Nigel, Gauteng. Class 15E locomotives are used on the 861 kilometres (535 miles) Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line to haul export ore from the open cast iron mines at Sishen in the Northern Cape to the harbour at Saldanha in the Western...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1918 and 1922 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 73 Class 14C 4-8-2 steam locomotives in service. Through reboilerings and rebalancings during their service life this single class eventually ended up as six different locomotive classes. As a result of wartime disruption in Europe and Britain, the fourth version of the Class 14 locomotive was ordered from the Montreal Locomotive Works in Canada in 1918. It became the Class 14C and was delivered in four batches between 1918 and 1922. While these locomotives were built to the specifications...
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