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First Class 60 goes for scrap

ALTHOUGH not the first Class 60 to be permanently removed from service, that dubious honour falling to No. 60098 in May 2004 (albeit not as one of two British Steel blue-liveried ‘Tugs’ with No. 60033 , both then being repainted into Corus silver colours at the end of 2000.

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