SOUTH AFRICA: Transnet Rail engineering has ordered two 24 tonne diesel shunting locomotives from DCD Dorbyl for delivery to the Kings Rest and Bay Head yards by November.
Lafarge Industries, Richards Bay Minerals and Nampower of Namibia have each ordered 35 tonne Funkey DHK locomotives for delivery this year.
Both models of locomotive will be fitted with Cummins engines.
HIGH-ADHESION bogies for 110 Bo-Bo heavy-haul electric locos ordered from Toshiba and UCW Partnership for Spoornet’s Richards Bay coal line are to be supplied by DCD-Dorbyl, the company’s Rolling Stock Division announced in July.The first of the 1067mm gauge bogies will be supplied to UCW’s plant in Nigel during the ...
THE LIFE of three U26C Class 34-400 locos used at the Sasol Synfuels refinery in Secunda, South Africa, is being extended in an upgrading contract awarded to DCD Dorbyl's Rolling Stock Division. An extra 15 to 20 years use is now expected from the refurbished locos, which were completed in ...
After a long period of neglect, railways in Georgia are undergoing reform at a time when they stand to benefit from east-west trade moving via the Transcaucasian route between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.
