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Diverted Cars: Class 66 at Cathiron

            EWS Liveried, DBS operated class 66 no. 66221 begins to power up after getting the green at Cathiron on 18th February 2015 working the diverted 6M66 Southampton-> Garston Ford cartics. The train has been diverted for the last few weeks due to the landslip on the Chiltern Mainline at Harbury tunnel. 

It's good to see this train as I really like the use of the uncovered 4333's compared to the 4384s that we usually see at Nuneaton. 

The EMD Class 66 was introduced to the UK Freight industry in 1998 when EWS ordered 250 locomotives based on the Class 59 locomotives which Foster Yeoman were using at the time on heavy aggregate trains. The locos were built by Electro Motive Diesel in Canada and arrived to the UK by boat during 1998. The locomotives replaced many of the older heritage classes that EWS inherited from British Rail as they were beginning to suffer from reliability issues. Not long after EWS, Feightliner began to take delivery of Class 66/5 locos and the fleet eventually grew to 98. Freightliner next took delivery of 25 Class 66/6s which had a lower gear ratio and were restricted to 60mph in order to handle some of the largest trains. The Class 66/9 subclass was first use to complete the original Class 66/5 delivery but was then further used to classify some later variants of the locos that were delivered with low emission engines. Other operators such as DRS, GBRf and Colas RailFreight operate Class 66 locomotives in the UK and they are one of the most versatile locomotive designs ever built. Several examples are now painted in DBS Red. The final new-build class 66s will be in the UK by the end of 2014 and will be part of the GB Railfreight fleet numbered 66752-66772. As of December 2014, these class 66s have arrived in the UK. However, with a change to the emissions rules, it looks like we haven't quite seen the last of this design, yet.

Taken on: February 18, 2015

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