delivered and placed in service, Class 9E or Class 15E electrics replaced the pair of Class 34 diesel-electrics in set D. At the same time, the more powerful Classes 15E and also made it possible to use as few as seven locomotives per train, with locomotive sets A, B and C each made up of one Class 9E or 15E and one Class 34 or , and set D of a single Class 9E or 15E. Works numbers The Class builder’s works numbers, ownership changes and renumbering are listed in the table. Liveries The Class 34-500 were all delivered in an Iscor livery. After their transfer to the SAR, they were gradually repainted 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 some of the Class 34-500 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 most of them 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 The main picture shows no. 34-530 in Spoornet blue livery with outline numbers. Some of the other liveries applied to Class locomotives are illustrated below. References 3380 Co-Co locomotives General Electric locomotives Dorbyl locomotives Cape gauge railway locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1974 1974 in South Africa