| Type | Railway Operator, commercialised organisation with the State as its sole shareholder |
|---|---|
| Industry | Train transport |
| Founded | 1910 |
| Headquarters | Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Key people | Siyabonga Gama, CEO Peter Fearnhead, Chief Operations Officer; Nick Thomson, Chief Financial Officer; Percival Mosweu, General Manager - Technical Department |
| 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 |
Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet. It was part of 'South African Railways and Harbours', a state-controlled organisation that 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). More recently, there have been customer complaints about serious problems with Transnet Freight Rail's service.[1]
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The first electrification of the South African Railways occurred in Natal with the building of the Colenso Power Station.[2]
Transnet Freight Rail is a freight logistics and passenger transport railway. It is the largest freight hauler in Africa. The company comprises several businesses:
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. A line in the Eastern Cape is leased to Kei Rail.[4]
The Transnet rail network is linked to all of South Africa's neighbouring countries: