The Transnet Freight Rail Class 18E, Series 2 of 2009 is a South African electric locomotive.
18-670 at Beaufort West, 27 March 2013
No. 18-677, ex Series 3 no. E1322, with narrow stirrup step
Class 18E, Series 1 no. 18-040
No. 18-751 (E1268) at Capital Park, Pretoria, 26 December 2015
The vacuum brake is a braking system employed on trains and introduced in the mid-1860s. A variant, the automatic vacuum brake system, became almost universal in British train equipment and in countri
Driver's brake control in a Black 5
Graduable brake valve (right) and the small (upper) and large ejector cocks from a GWR locomotive
Driver's brake control on a combined control and ejector. The ejector steam nozzles, large and small, are beneath the hexagonal brass plugs on the left.