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South African Class 7E3, Series 2

South African Class 7E3, Series 2
No. E7296 at Richards Bay, 14 August 2007
Type and origin
Power typeElectric
DesignerHitachi
BuilderDorbyl
ModelHitachi 7E3
Build date1984-1985
Total produced25
RebuilderTranswerk
Rebuild date2000-2003
Number rebuilt1 to Class 7E4
Specifications
Configuration:
 • AARC-C
 • UICCo'Co'
 • CommonwealthCo-Co
Gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge
Wheel diameter1,220 mm (48.03 in)
Wheelbase13,460 mm (44 ft 1+78 in) ​
 • Bogie4,060 mm (13 ft 3+78 in)
Pivot centres10,200 mm (33 ft 5+58 in)
Panto shoes12,075 mm (39 ft 7+38 in)
Length:
 • Over couplers18,430 mm (60 ft 5+58 in)
 • Over body17,480 mm (57 ft 4+14 in)
Width2,906 mm (9 ft 6+38 in)
Height:
 • Pantograph4,180 mm (13 ft 8+58 in)
 • Body height3,941 mm (12 ft 11+18 in)
Axle load21,420 kg (47,220 lb)
Adhesive weight123,500 kg (272,300 lb)
Loco weight123,500 kg (272,300 lb)
Electric system/s25 kV AC/50 Hz catenary
Current pickup(s)Pantographs
Traction motorsSix HS-1054-GR ​
 • Rating 1 hour525 kW (704 hp)
 • Continuous500 kW (670 hp)
Gear ratio16:94
Loco brakeAir & Rheostatic
Train brakesAir & Vacuum
CouplersAAR knuckle
Performance figures
Maximum speed100 km/h (62 mph)
Power output:
 • 1 hour3,150 kW (4,220 hp)
 • Continuous3,000 kW (4,000 hp)
Tractive effort:
 • Starting450 kN (100,000 lbf)
 • 1 hour319 kN (72,000 lbf)
 • Continuous300 kN (67,000 lbf)
Career
OperatorsSouth African Railways
Spoornet
Transnet Freight Rail
ClassClass 7E3
Number in class24
NumbersE7277-E7300
Delivered1984-1985
First run1984

The South African Railways Class 7E3, Series 2 of 1984 is an electric locomotive.

Between 1984 and 1985, the South African Railways placed twenty-five Class 7E3, Series 2 electric locomotives with a Co-Co wheel arrangement in mainline service. In c. 2001, one of these dual cab locomotives was rebuilt to a single cab locomotive and reclassified to Class 7E4.[1][2][3]

Manufacturer

The 25 kV AC Class 7E3, Series 2 electric locomotive was designed for the South African Railways (SAR) by Hitachi and built in South Africa by Dorbyl, who also supplied the mechanical components.[1][4]

Twenty-five locomotives were delivered by Dorbyl between 1984 and 1985, numbered in the range from E7276 to E7300. Like Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW), Dorbyl did not allocate builder’s numbers to the locomotives it built for the SAR, but used the SAR unit numbers for their record keeping.[1]

Characteristics

Appearance

These dual cab locomotives have a roof access ladder on one side only, just to the right of the cab access door. The roof access ladder end is marked as the no. 1 end. The Series 1 and Series 2 locomotives are visually indistinguishable from each other, but the two sides of the locomotives are sufficiently different in appearance that a pair of them coupled at the same ends appears at first glance to be two different locomotive types. The roof access ladder side is smooth, while the other side has several large grilles.[1]

Pantographs

The locomotive's pantograph placement is unusual in not being equidistant from the locomotive ends. The contact shoe centre of the no. 1 end pantograph is 6,155 millimetres (20 feet 2.3 inches) from the longitudinal centre of the locomotive, while that of the no. 2 end pantograph is 5,920 millimetres (19 feet 5.1 inches) from the longitudinal centre.[1]

Brakes

Control of traction and rheostatic braking on the Class 7E3 is by stepless solid-state electronics. The electrical equipment was designed for high power factor operation, obtained by the switching in of power-factor correction capacitors.[4]

Unlike the Classes 7E and 7E2 Series 1 and 2, where thyristors are used, these locomotives use silicon-diode rectifiers.[5]

Bogies

To reduce flange and rail wear, the bogies of the Class 7E3 have a shorter wheelbase than the Class 7E1, 4,060 millimetres (13 feet 3.8 inches) instead of 4,400 millimetres (14 feet 5.2 inches).[1][4]

Like the Class 7E1, the Class 7E3 was built with sophisticated traction linkages on the bogies. Together with the locomotive's electronic wheel-slip detection system, these traction struts, mounted between the linkages on the bogies and the locomotive body and colloquially referred to as grasshopper legs, ensure the maximum transfer of power to the rails without causing wheel-slip, by reducing the adhesion of the leading bogie and increasing that of the trailing bogie by as much as 15% upon starting.[4]

Reclassifications

In the period from the early 1990s until 2007, various modifications to improve downhill braking capacity were done to the Coalink line’s Hitachi-designed locomotives. The first set of upgrades were done on the fifty Class 7E1 locomotives.[2]

Class 7E4

From 2001, seventeen Class 7E3 locomotives, sixteen Series 1, numbers E7260 to E7275, and one Series 2, no. E7276, underwent significant modifications. This included the installation of Hitachi micro-processor controls with improved rheostatic brakes, auxiliary inverters which were designed and built by Fuji, and conversion from double cab to single cab, since the no. 2 end cab space was required for some of the new equipment. These modified single-cab locomotives were reclassified to Class 7E4.[2][3]

Class 7E5

The conversions to Class 7E4 were costly, however, and it was decided to modify further Class 7E3 locomotives to a lesser extent, gaining almost the same benefits at a lower cost, since they remained as double-cab locomotives. The first batch to be upgraded in this manner, were Series 2 numbers E7286 to E7300, but others followed, in total about fifty locomotives of both series. These were reclassified to Class 7E5, although externally they were still identical to the Class 7E3.[2]

Class 7E6

Following some systems failures on the upgraded Class 7E5 locomotives, a further variation in the modifications was applied to the remaining Class 7E3 locomotives which had not yet been upgraded. These units were then reclassified to Class 7E6. Eventually all the Class 7E5 locomotives were also modified once again to meet the Class 7E6 specifications.[2]

Revert to Class 7E3

By October 2007 all these locomotives were fully upgraded and standardised in respect of their rheostat flat topping and EPROM software. Since, apart from the single cab Class 7E4 conversions, they were once again all identical, those which had been reclassified to Classes 7E5 and 7E6 reverted to their original Class 7E3 classifications. Although numbers E7277 to E7300 are all officially Class 7E3, Series 2 once again, many of them still bore markings for several years to identify them as either Class 7E5 or Class 7E6. The single-cab no. E7276, however, remains classified as Class 7E4.[2][3]

Service

Since 1978, 25 kV AC was introduced on all new mainline electrification projects bar one, the exception being the Orex iron ore line from Sishen to Saldanha where 50 kV AC is used. The Class 7E3, Series 2 locomotives all serve on the 25 kV Coalink line from Ermelo via Vryheid to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal.[2][4]

JANUARY 2022

7E3 SERIES 2
Header text Header text Header text Header text Header text Header text
7276
7277 SPOORNET BLUE 2021 DE AAR
7278 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 DE AAR
7279 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 KIMBERLEY STORED STEAM SHED
7280 SPOORNET BLUE 2021 DE AAR
7281 X X X SCRAPPED
7282 SPOORNET BLUE 2021 DE AAR
7283 X X X SCRAPPED
7284 X X X SCRAPPED
7285 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 DE AAR
7286 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 DE AAR
7287
7288 X X X SCRAPPED
7289 SPOORNET ORANGE 2020 PORT ELIZABETH
7290 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 DE AAR
7291 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 DE AAR
7292 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 DE AAR
7293 SPOORNET ORANGE 2018 PORT ELIZABETH
7294 SPOORNET BLUE 2021 DE AAR
7295 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 KIMBERLEY STORED STEAM SHED
7296 X X X SCRAPPED
7297 SPOORNET BLUE 2021 DE AAR
7298 SPOORNET BLUE 2021 KIMBERLY
7299 X X X SCRAPPED
7300 SPOORNET ORANGE 2021 KIMBERLY STORED STEAM SHED

Liveries

All the Class 7E3, Series 2 locomotives were delivered in the SAR red oxide livery with signal red buffer beams and cowcatchers, yellow whiskers and with the number plates on the sides mounted on three-stripe yellow wings. In the 1990s some of them were repainted in the Spoornet orange livery with a yellow and blue chevron pattern on the buffer beams and cowcatchers. In the late 1990s many were repainted in the Spoornet blue livery with either solid or outline numbers on the long hood sides.[6]

Illustration

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Middleton, John N. (2002). Railways of Southern Africa Locomotive Guide - 2002 (as amended by Combined Amendment List 4, January 2009) (2nd, Dec 2002 ed.). Herts, England: Beyer-Garratt Publications. pp. 50, 61.
  3. ^ a b c Information received from several Transnet employees
  4. ^ a b c d e Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 129–131. ISBN 0869772112.
  5. ^ Jane's Train Recognition Guide
  6. ^ Soul of A Railway, System 7, Western Transvaal, based in Johannesburg, Part 9. South-Eastwards as far as Volksrust (2nd part) by Les Pivnic. Caption 4. (Accessed on 11 April 2017)

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