The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 2 of 1963 was an electric locomotive.
No. E610 at Paardeneiland Depot, 11 April 1970
No. E613 in SAR green and whiskers at Bloemfontein, Free State, 18 September 2015
The South African Railways Class 5E1, Series 1 of 1959 was an electric locomotive.
South African Class 5E1, Series 2
…the axles by means of plain oil-lubricated bearings consisting of bronze shells with white metal linings. After the introduction of the more powerful Class 5E1, Series 1, considerable trouble was experienced due to flaking of the white metal linings as a result of the increased intensity of the pressure on these bearings…
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.