PRASA unveils first new long-haul passenger locomotive

The next three years will see an influx of new long-haul passenger locomotives enter service in South Africa after the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) unveiled Africa’s first 4000-series diesel locomotive at Cape Town Station on Monday. The new high-powered locomotive – the first of 70 – marked a “turning point” for the State-owned entity as it hoped to reintroduce services along a number of corridors that were mothballed on the back of ageing infrastructure and rolling stock.