Test train

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Experimental train with class 6E1 at the front, stands at Koedoespoort works with its train. Note the guards van .

Photos Hennie Heymans 05/11/2004.
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What were they testing? Looks like old rolling stock to me.
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Special guards van? Instrumentation coach?
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Or were they testing track? Do those vehicles contain measuring instruments or something?
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