EMUs - by Trainman!?

[John Ashworth]

An unusual subject for steam enthusiast Nathan "Trainman" Berelowitz - pictures and captions by Nathan on 24th February 2008

[Marc Russell]

It is awful, the old face is so much prettier

[Kevin Wilson-Smith]

It has an English look.

Welcome Nathan, by the way, to the Electric Converts Club! I think everyone is a bit of a closet EMU person - they just find it hard to admit....!

[Marc Russell]

I have in my hands a MetroRail Pretoria, timetable booklet from 2002 and on the front and back covers is a photo of said motor coach (one of)

[Kevin Wilson-Smith]

Interesting. I have never ever seen one - this photo was the first time!

[Marc Russell]

Also there is a photo of another motor coach. It has 3 windows on the front face, the 2 standard windows, and a rather large window in the centre. Under the centre window is the word 'Jacaranda' with a picture of a jacaranda tree.

[Luca Lategan]

Can you maybe scan that picture (with the jakarandas on the train)? Isn't this the train I'm refering to at viewtopic.php?f=144&t=1516?

[Marc Russell]

As it turns out the motor coach with the Jacarandas painted on the front is auctually the driver training set

[John Ashworth]

See my recent picture at http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... 144&t=1742

This unit has sliding doors, incidentally, unlike the blue driver training unit that Hennie photographed in Koedespoort. If I recall it is a two (or three?) car train including its own electric motor car, unlike the blue one which has an electric loco attached.

[Marc Russell]

That's the one

[Craig Duckham]

This is a 10M2 set. These sets along with the 10M1 and other prototypes lead to the 10M3 / 10M4 design. Which lead to the current 10M5 design.
I can not tell from the picture if this is a UCW build or a Transwerk one. A number of the 10M2 sets have been updated and the cab replaced with the new 10M5 cab.

[John Ashworth]

Thanks, Craig, for the information. And welcome - your first post to the FOTR forum.

We're seeing a lot of these new Metro sets around Gauteng now, and there are a lot more in Koedespoort being upgraded.