mainlines and some branch lines in the central, western, southern and southeastern parts of the country. On the busy line from Krugersdorp via Zeerust to Mafeking, the Class 34-400 became the standard motive power. Some eventually joined the Class on the Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line, to haul export ore from the open cast iron mines at Sishen near Kathu in the Northern Cape to the harbour at Saldanha in the Western Cape. Here they ran consisted to electric locomotives to haul the 342 wagon iron ore trains. Each wagon has a 100-ton capacity and the trains are at least in length. In South Africa, mixed electric and diesel-electric consists are unique to the iron ore line. Leased and sold Eleven Class were leased to the Kenya Railways for some years, regauged to and renumbered in the range from 9501 to 9511. They were returned to Spoornet in April 2002. Several Class were sold into industry. No. went to the Douglas Colliery near Witbank as no. D10. Five went to Sasol at Trichardt near Secunda and two to Blue Circle Cement at Lichtenburg. No. , with the bodywork removed, is used for apprentice training at the Germiston diesel depot. Works numbers The Class 34-400 builder's works numbers and known deployment are listed in the table. Liveries The Class 34-400 were all delivered in the SAR Gulf Red livery with signal red buffer beams, yellow side stripes on the long hood sides and a yellow V on each end. In the 1990s many of the Class 34-400 units began to be repainted in the Spoornet orange livery with a yellow and blue chevron pattern on the buffer beams. At least one later received the Spoornet maroon livery. In the late 1990s many were repainted in the Spoornet blue livery with outline numbers on the long hood sides. After 2008 in the Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) era, many were repainted in the TFR red, green and yellow livery. Illustration References 3370 C-C locomotives Co′Co′ locomotives Co+Co locomotives General Electric locomotives Dorbyl locomotives Cape gauge railway locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1973 1973 in South Africa