Class 66 - EWS Maroon - 66001 - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_CIE exactly one year after it

exactly one year after it was placed into store

its new owner also specified toughened windscreens

the latter was given its makeover ahead of its soon-to-be namesake’s annual conference at the Metropole Hotel

The dominance of English Welsh & Scottish Railway ended in 2004 as Direct Rail Services (DRS) and GB Railfreight took on contracts

66421 was refreshed with the new simplified DRS livery during 2015 and ran unnamed until 2018 when it featured at the DRS Crewe Gresty Bridge TMD open day where it was named after the depot

Class 66 - EWS Maroon - 66001 - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_CIE exactly one year after itThe arrival of 66001 on to British soil at 08: 53 on the 18th of Aprill 1998 heralded a new dawn for British rail freight, the first of several hundred locomotives of a type that would revolutionise Railfreight across the UK (and Europe). There were a few subtle differences between the first two and the rest of the production batch which have never been replicated before on a model. Firstly the lashing eyes to secure the locomotive to the ship were in