Class 66 - Freightliner (60th Anniversary) - 66501 Freight Type_Fuel Tank Burton-upon-Trent

Burton-upon-Trent

when the paintjob was first rolled out on the Class 31s as they left Doncaster after Heavy General Overhaul from March 1985 only the red bufferbeams were carried over

Its initial allocation was Stafford Road shed (Wolverhampton) and can be seen here as it was outshopped in the early British Railways livery lettered livery with GWR "Egyptian" typeface

British Railways 21 Ton Coal 21 / MDO Wagons

Pack M: Seaham Dock Co

Class 66 - Freightliner (60th Anniversary) - 66501 Freight Type_Fuel Tank Burton-upon-Trent66501 was the first Class 66 to arrive in the UK for another operator, in this case Freightliner, on 17 July 1999 aboard the M. V. Gajah Borneo. On 19 July 1999, the locomotive was formally handed over at Newport Docks before making its way to Ipswich for acceptance. It settled into normal Freightliner intermodal operations and gained the name Japan 2001 to commemorate Freightliners support of the Japan 2001 Festival. It remained in this condition