Sheltam

Sheltam is a locomotive hire and repair company that undertakes complete operating contracts and maintenance contracts, based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. By the year 2000, Sheltam locomotives were operating at Randfontein Estates Gold Mine in Gauteng, and in Mpumalanga at Douglas and Vandyksdrift Collieries and at SAPPI, Ngodwana. They also operated on Spoornet’s Newcastle-Utrecht branch in KwaZulu-Natal and on Kei Rail in the Eastern Cape. Outside South Africa they operate on the Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (BBR), NLL and Railway Systems of Zambia (RSZ) lines through Zimbabwe and Zambia and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1][2]

Ex-SAR 31-005 locomotive in Sheltam Livery

Locomotives

Locomotives owned or operated by Sheltam include:

References
  1. Middleton, John N. (ed.). Railways of Southern Africa Locomotive Guide (2002 ed.). pp. 38, 41 and 45, as amended by Combined Amendment List 4, January 2009.
  2. SA Rail. 46 (2): 3–7. April 2008. ISSN 1026-3195. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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