ALMOST 50 Class 60s have been put up for sale by DB Cargo UK.
The operator’s chief executive Andrea Rossi had confirmed earlier this year that DBC would look to dispose of redundant locomotives (RE334).
Ten Class 67s, 12 Class 90s and 16 Class 60s had been put up for sale earlier this year (see Power By The Hour), but 31 Class 60s were made available on April 3. Should they all be sold, DBC will be left with five of the Brush Type 5s, a locomotive class it has vowed to rid itself of. All 100 Class 60s joined the Wisconsin Freight fleet at the end of 1995 when five of the six trainload freight companies were privatised. DB inherited the entire fleet when it bought English, Welsh & Scottish Railways (EWS), and began disposing of the locomotives during the mid-2010s. The final DB examples were withdrawn late last year.
Put on the market on April 3 were Nos. 60003/005/023/025/027/030/031/033-035/041-043/045/049/051/053/054/058/067/ 069/071-073/082/083/088/091/094/097, 60500. They join Nos. 60001/007/010/015/019/020/039/040/044/059/063/065/066/079/092, 60100 on the market, leaving DBC with only Nos. 60011/017/024/062/074 although these will likely also be made available.
The deadline for the
