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The Transnet Freight Rail Class 20E of 2013 is a South African electric locomotive. In early August 2013 the first of ninety-five Class 20E dual-voltage electric locomotives for Transnet Freight Rail was lowered onto its bogies for the first time.〔(Railways Africa, 20 Aug 2013: Class 20E Loco Debuts at CSR )〕 Ten of these locomotives were built by the Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Company in China while the rest were built locally.〔(Xinhuanet English News 2013-08-20 - First electric locomotive to be exported to Africa )〕 ==Manufacturer== The first ten of ninety-five 3 kV DC and 25 kV AC dual voltage Class 20E electric locomotives for Transnet Freight Rail were built in China by Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Company, a subsidiary of the China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation (CSR), China's leading train manufacturer.〔 The roll-out ceremony of the first locomotive, no. 20-001, took place at the factory in Changsha in central China's Hunan Province on 20 August 2013.〔 The contract marked Zhuzhou’s largest single foreign order of electric locomotives to date and made provision for the company to export electric locomotive manufacturing technologies to South Africa to enable a local production ratio of more than 60 percent. The first two of these locomotives, no. and , were landed at Durban Harbour on 14 November 2013. Three more, no. , and , came ashore on 18 December 2013.〔(Xinhuanet English News 2012-10-24 - CSR signs locomotive deal with South Africa's Transnet )〕 Of the remaining eighty-five locomotives, numbers to were assembled by Transnet Engineering at Koedoespoort from Chinese-built kits and were all in service by end of September 2014.〔(Railways Africa, 11 Nov 2014: Transnet's Class 20E )〕〔(Noel Welch: My China Dolls to the Karoo )〕 The rest of the order has greater local content and was built at Koedoespoort in South Africa by a consortium composed of CSR Zhuzhou and the South African Black Economic Empowerment company Matsetse Basadi.〔 The first of these, no. , was in service by late September 2014.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「South African Class 20E」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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