Class 58

80 mile/h co-co diesel electric locomotive with Ruston Paxman 12RK3ACT engine giving 3,300HP

50 locos were originally built by BREL at Doncaster between 1983 and 1987

EWS withdrew them in 2002 after 20 years in service and 30 were subsequently hired abroad – four to the Netherlands, eight to Spain and twenty to France.

On the Donnington branch near Wellington 1985 58027 near Ratcliffe power station 1984
58005 Crewe 1999 58011 RTC yard Derby 1984
58001 Barrow Hill 2008 58083 RTC 1984

Author's collection

On NS at Amersfoort in 2005

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