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NEWS UPDATE

DB CARGO

FOLLOWING the arrival of Nos. 66010, 66028 and 66190, three further Euro Cargo Rail Class 66s have returned to the UK from the continent. Nos. 66032, 66073 and 66205 all made the trip through the Channel Tunnel in the first week of July before moving north to Toton, via Scunthorpe and Doncaster on the 9th. The final stage of the journey (6M67 from Belmont Yard) was undertaken behind No. 60040, leading a mega convoy of seven EMD ‘Type 5s’ with Nos. 66060, 66061, 66075 and 66154!

Meanwhile, Nos. 66055 and 66088 have both been stored WQAA at Toton, while Nos. 66017, 66037, 66057, 66100 and 66207, all stopped in April,

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