Transnet Freight Rail

Type	Railway Operator, commercialised organisation with the State as its sole shareholder
Founded	1910
Headquarters	Johannesburg
Key people	Siyabonga Gama, CEO Peter Fearnhead, Chief Operations Officer; Nick Thomson, Chief Financial Officer; Percival Mosweu, General Manager - Technical Department
Industry	Train transport
Products	Freight transport service
Revenue	ca. R14 bn as of 2006[update]
Employees	ca. 25,000
Website	http://www.spoornet.co.za/

Transnet Freight Rail
Locale	Southern Africa
Dates of operation	1910–present
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Headquarters	Johannesburg
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Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet. It was formerly part of South African Railways and Harbours. This state-controlled organisation employed hundreds of thousands of people for decades from the first half of the 20th century and was widely referred to by the initials SAR&H (SAS&H in Afrikaans).

Contents 1 Operations 2 Links to neighboring countries 3 Ongoing projects 4 External links

[edit] Operations

Transnet Freight Rail is a freight logistics and passenger transport railway. It is the largest freight hauler in Africa. The company comprises several businesses:

• General Freight Bus - Spoornet's largest division; handles over 50% of its freight;
• COAL Export Line, also known as "Black Gold", serving coal customers on the Mpumalanga - Richards Bay line; second largest coal railway in the world;
• Ore Export Line - dedicated to iron ore transport on the Sishen to Saldanha line;
• Luxrail - The operation of the Blue Train, which is designed as a five-star hotel on wheels.

Transnet also formerly owned Shosholoza Meyl, the non-luxury long distance passenger rail service. Shosholoza Meyl was transferred to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa on 23 December 2008.

[edit] Links to neighboring countries

The Transnet rail network is linked to all of South Africa's neigbouring countries:

to TransNamib of Namibia at Nakop

to Botswana Railways at Ramatlabama

to the Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway of Zimbabwe at Beitbridge

to Mozambique Ports and Railways at Ressano Garcia

to Swazi Rail of Swaziland at Golela and Mananga

a Transnet-owned line to in Maseru in Lesotho

[edit] Ongoing projects

• Maputo Corridor Transnet Freight Rail is developing a plan with the Railroad Development Corporation to transport magnetite from Phalaborwa to Maputo as feedstock for a proposed steel plant in Maputo.

[edit] External links

• Official web site
• Transnet
• Spoornet Operational Report at Transnet
• Friends of the Rail
• MBendi Spoornet information page/article
• South African Trains - A Pictorial Encyclopaedia

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