service, the Class worked on most mainlines and some unelectrified branchlines in the central, eastern, northern and northeastern parts of the country. National Railways of Zimbabwe From at least 1988 until at least 1992, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) hired type GT26MC Class locomotives from the SAR and later Spoornet. At least one Class locomotive, no. , also served on lease in Zimbabwe and was observed there in September 1992. NLPI Limited NLPI Limited, abbreviated from New Limpopo Projects Investments, a Mauritius-registered company, specialises in private sector investments by using the build-operate-transfer (BOT) concept. It had three connected railway operations in Zimbabwe and Zambia, which formed a rail link between South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (BBR), commissioned on 1 September 1999, operates the Beit Bridge to Bulawayo line in Zimbabwe. Since February 2004 NLPI Logistics (NLL or LOG) operates between Bulawayo and Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe-Zambia border. Since February 2003 the Railway Systems of Zambia (RSZ) operated on the former Zambian Railways (ZR) from Victoria Falls to Sakania in the Congo. In Zambia, the RSZ locomotive fleet included former ZR locomotives, but the rest of the locomotive fleet of all three operations consisted of South African GM-EMD Classes , and and GE Classes 35-000 and 35-400 locomotives from Spoornet and later TFR. These locomotives were sometimes marked or branded as either BBR or LOG or both, but their status, whether leased or loaned, was unclear since they were still on the TFR roster and still often worked in South Africa as well. Class locomotives which served with NLPI include the locomotives annotated "NLPI" in the "disposition" column in the table below. Zambia Railways, the state-owned holding company, resumed control of the Zambian national rail network on 11 September 2012. This followed the government's decision to revoke the operating concession awarded to RSZ after Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda claimed that RSZ had "blatantly disregarded the provisions of the agreement" and had been "acting in a manner prejudicial to the interests of Zambians”. Iscor In 1979, one Class locomotive was delivered new to Iscor's Newcastle steel works in Natal, numbered . Works numbers The works numbers of the Class as well as their known disposal and deployment are displayed in the table. Liveries The Class 34-800 were all delivered in the SAR Gulf Red livery with signal red buffer beams, yellow side stripes