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Class 66 - Page 3

News

More Class 66s for GBRf in 2015?

The 21 American-built Class 66s that have now all been delivered to GB Railfreight Muncie (Indiana) may not be the final examples of the class after all.

16 Dec

News

Brand new Class 66s delivered to Doncaster

Final seven Class 66/7s from this year's order of 21 on way from Newport to Doncaster

9 Dec

News

Final GBRf Class 66s arrive

The final seven Class 66/7s for GB Railfreight unloaded at Newport Docks

8 Dec

Gallery

Crewe - Gresty Bridge photos

On November 23 2012, RICHARD CLINNICK visited Crewe Gresty Bridge

17 Nov

Feature

Stop-start ‘66’ put through its paces

RICHARD CLINNICK witnesses first-hand the new stop-start technology being tested on a DB Schenker Class 66 in Cornwall

Locomotives 12 Nov

Feature

Class 66

Specifications for Class 66s

Locomotives 16 Oct

News

Last GBRf '66' being built in US…first now in traffic in UK

CONSTRUCTION of all the remaining 15 of GB Railfreight’s order of 21 Class 66s is now in progress in the Electro-Motive Diesel factory in Muncie, Indiana

6 Aug

News

GBRf welcomes the first five of 21 new '66s' onto UK soil

Five brand new Class 66/7s were off-loaded at Newport Docks on July 11, after arriving in the UK by ship from America.

23 Jul

News

GBRf spends £50m on new Class 66/7s and Class 92s

Twenty-one brand new Class 66/7s have been ordered by GB Railfreight, with delivery beginning in July

5 Feb

Gallery

London from the air (part 2)

RAIL 739 featured a series of exclusive pictures of central London railway locations from the air. We present a further selection of images

22 Jan

Feature

Introducing the DRS 'Crewe'

PAUL PRENTICE spends a day with Direct Rail Services at the company's Crewe Gresty Bridge depot

Locomotives 1 May

Feature

Fifteenth anniversary of the Class 66

STEFANIE BROWNE considers the ongoing success of the Class 66

Locomotives 17 Apr

Feature

Devon-sent

Deep in Devon, a branch line has been resurrected to serve heavy freight trains. RICHARD CLINNICK reports.

Freight 7 Mar

Feature

GBRf's freight revolution

RICHARD CLINNICK talks to GBRf MD JOHN SMITH before boarding a GBRf container train

Freight 29 Jun

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