The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 1 of 1959 was an electric locomotive.
No. E464 at Salt River, Cape Town, 7 January 1966
Shells of numbers E397 and E461 in SAR blue and whiskers, as clubroom at Sentrarand Depot, 22 September 2009.
No. E445, at the time still in bottle green livery, at Salt River Depot, Cape Town, 7 January 1966.
No. E496 in a MetroRail shop livery at the Salt River MetroRail Depot, Cape Town, 6 November 2014.
The Blue Train is a luxury train that travels an approximately 1,600-kilometre journey in South Africa, between Pretoria and Cape Town. It is one of the most luxurious train journeys in the world. It
South African Class 5E1, Series 1
…whiskers were added in South Africa during their erection. Some selected electric and diesel-electric locomotives were painted blue for use with the Blue Train, but without altering the layout of the various paint schemes. Blue Train locomotives were therefore blue with yellow whiskers in the SAR era. During…
Blue Train passes through the Karoo