DB CARGO UK has put 22 locomotives up for sale, with nine stored Class 67s, Nos. 67001/003/004/009/011/01 8/019/026/030, and one currently active locomotive, No. 67028, as well as 12 Class 90s, Nos. 90019-021/024/026/028/029/034-037/039, and a large quantity of spares.
The decision to sell these locomotives follows a tender during 2023 which saw 12 long-stored Class 90s put up for sale, Nos. 90017/018/022/023/025/027/030-033/038/040, although their sales have not been confirmed.
The 12 Class 90s put up for sale at the end of December formed the entire previously operational fleet that was switched off between February and July 2023. All 21 stored locomotives have now been reallocated from WQBA to the lowest ‘Group 4’ WQDA pool.
No. 67019 is the longest stored Class 67, having been stopped at Toton in March 2015. Nos. 67009/011/026 at Crewe International Electric Maintenance Depot were all sidelined between June and October 2016, while No. 67018 Keith Heller, named after a previous chief executive officer of EWS/ DBC, was taken out of service at the Cheshire depot in March 2019. Totonlocated Nos. 67003/030 and No. 67004 were stored in October 2019 and May 2020 respectively, while No. 67001 at Crewe followed in May 2023. The list includes all but one of the last five remaining EWS-liveried ‘67s’ and this survivor, co-incidentally, is the only out-of-service member of the class to not be up for sale, No. 67016. This was stopped as recently as October.
Thirty 125mph Class 67s were delivered from Alstom’s Valencia plant in Spain between October 1999 and August 2000, primarily for use on Royal Mail services. From around
