DB SCHENKER TO SELL 20 CLASS 60S
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Freight operator DB Schenker is making 20 Class 60s available for sale, the first time that examples of the class - the last main line diesel locomotives built in the UK - have been sold.
DB says that it no longer needs the heavy haul Type 5 locomotives. They form part of a massive tender list from the company that sees a total of 103 locomotives being made available.
DB Schenker Disposals Manager Charlie Maddocks said: “DB continually reviews its locomotive fleet to ensure it meets its current and future needs. This occasionally identifies assets that are no longer required. Following such a review, we have made available to other interested parties more than 100 locomotives which are no longer required by us.”
A total of 100 ‘60s’ were built for British Rail, with the fleet delivered between 1989 and 1993. They have always been used for heavy freight trains. The first examples were stored in 2004, and the fleet has slowly dwindled to fewer than ten locomotives in traffic. Indeed, former DB Schenker Chief Executive Keith Heller said in February 2009, that the entire class would be stored… read more in RAIL 652, on sale 08/09/2010
