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Transnet shuts coal line for maintenance

Transnet shuts coal line for maintenance

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9th May 2014

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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State-owned Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) would on Monday embark on its yearly 12-day maintenance of its coal export line.

The line would be shut down from May 14 until May 25, giving TFR an opportunity to “catch up” on maintenance backlogs, replace old, obsolete and problematic infrastructure and accelerate major capital expansion and upgrade projects.

“The shutdown programme is also necessitated by the fact that on the coal line there are sections where infrastructure work cannot be carried out without stopping the entire train service,” the company said in a statement on Friday.

TFR would carry out sleepers replacement, formation rehabilitation, tamping and screening.

Further, the substations would be overhauled, which included the repair of any oil leaks on the main transformers and on primary circuit breakers, besides others.

TFR's coal line descends from Mpumalanga, through the Highveld and rural KwaZulu-Natal, ending at Richards Bay.

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