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Diesel locomotives post Sectorisation and Privatisation (except Class 66 in all their forms - see below)
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You could still smell the fresh paint on 37002 at Crewe Works on 4 July 1987 as it waited for testing and release to traffic the following week
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You could still smell the fresh paint on 37002 at Crewe Works on 4 July 1987 as it waited for testing and release to traffic the following week

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  • 47778 arrives at Eastleigh with the china clay tanks from Quidhampton in November 2003
  • 50032 is a little off the beaten track at Cardiff Central on 5 May 1988 with the daily 50 turn to Wales and back
  • 60059 passes Water Orton with 6E35 Llanwern to Lackenby steel empties on 25 June 2004
  • 56043 and 56052 power through Newport with the empty iron ore hoppers from Llanwern on 5 May 1988
  • 60031 heads north through Water Orton in fine weather on 25 July 2004
  • An early repaint into grey Railfreight livery, 26035 is stabled at Motherwell TMD on 10 November 1985
  • Heading a trainload of steel coil carriers through Doncaster on 28 November 2003 was 56088, probably the last time I saw the class in revenue earning action
  • 60025 heads a train of HAA coal wagons south through Doncaster on 28 November 2003
  • 37501 and 37502 were still the regular power on the daily train to Corby on 4 July 1987 - passing Chesterfield the dark blue stripe has now been applied to the lower bodyside of 37501
  • You could still smell the fresh paint on 37002 at Crewe Works on 4 July 1987 as it waited for testing and release to traffic the following week
  • Waiting for release from Crewe Works on 4 July 1987 was 56049, wearing a fresh coat of 'red stripe railfreight' livery
  • 47213 was 'borrowed' to provide an exhibit at Eastleigh BREL Open Day on 12 October 1986
  • 59001 leaves Eastleigh and heads to the 'branch' with the return empties from Botley on 13 October 1986
  • 20108 and 20149 run light engines through Warrington on 18 November 1986
  • 31159 sits in the yard at Thornaby on 19 November 1986
  • 47150 approaches Worting in November 1996 with a strange variation in livery caused by the cabs having received a repaint - the bodyside looks as though it has been through too many coal loaders!
  • 47841 is at Idsworth with a Virgin service from Portsmouth on 7 April 2002
  • A Virgin cross-country service heads through Lower Basildon behind 47822 on 12 October 2001
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