South African Class DS1

The South African Railways Class DS1 of 1939 was the second diesel-electric locomotive on the South African Railways, a single six-wheeled shunting locomotive that was essentially half a Class DS. Two were ordered from AEG in Berlin and delivered, one for the Railways, numbered D138 and then D514, and one for the Electricity Supply Commission, which used it at Cape Town power stations. A single 198 kilowatt Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nuernberg diesel engine drove an AEG generator and three DC traction motors. The railway unit was withdrawn from yard service in July 1956, then used for workshop shunting and finally plinthed at Braamfontein.