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R30373 Hornby Class 60 Diesel Loco number 60 081 "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" GWR Green - The One:One Collection  - Era 11 R30373 Hornby Class 60 Diesel Loco number 60 081 "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" GWR Green - The One:One Collection  - Era 11 R30373 Hornby Class 60 Diesel Loco number 60 081 "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" GWR Green - The One:One Collection  - Era 11
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R30373 Hornby Class 60 Diesel 60 081 Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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R30373 Hornby Class 60 Diesel Loco number 60 081 "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" GWR Green - The One:One Collection  - Era 11

The last mainline diesel locomotive type built for British Rail, the Class 60 arose from the arrival, and subsequent success, of the Class 59 locomotive. With a haulage capacity and reliability superior to the Class 31, 37 and 47 locomotives in sector service at the time, Trainload Petroleum, Metals, Construction and Coal were prompted to lobby for a new UK designed locomotive to match it. British Rail Board eventually secured the necessary treasury funding and following a difficult procurement process, the contract was finally awarded to Brush Electrical Machines of Loughborough on May 17, 1988, for 100 locomotives.

Brush’s design incorporated many features from the Class 59’s specification, as well as their own Sepex traction control system, tested on the Class 58, to improve adhesion. The Class 60s were geared for a maximum speed of 62 mph, the power units being eight-cylinder, 145 litre Blackstone 8MB275T diesel traction engines built by Mirrlees at their Stockport works, delivering a maximum power output of 3,100hp at 1000rpm. The bodyshell, shared with the Class 92 locomotives, was of a monocoque, stressed skin construction with diagonal trusses, the external bodywork providing support for the internal components, and all were built by Procor (UK) of Wakefield.

The first locomotive was handed over to Railfreight on time, in June 1989, but extensive teething problems (many involving computer software), meant that it took sixteen months before the first of the Class were accepted and nearly four years to introduce all 100 of the Class 60 locomotives to service. By the time the Class 60 fleet entered service, Trainload’s Sector businesses had given way to “shadow” privatisation and the formation, in 1994, of Loadhaul, Transrail and Mainline Freight with the Class 60 fleet split equally between them. English, Welsh and Scottish Railway bought the whole Class 60 fleet as part of British Railway’s privatisation, reallocating the entire Class 60 fleet to Toton as a cost cutting measure and to pool common parts. By 2003/4, several locomotives were stored as surplus to operational requirements.

In 2007 EWS became part of DB Schenker and at the end of October 2010, the entire Class 60 fleet was mothballed, except for 60040 The Territorial Army Centenary and 60074 Teenage Cancer Trust. By the end of 2011, two more locomotives were returned to service, followed by an announcement that 21 further Class 60s were to be overhauled in 2012, this being completed by the end of 2013. Since then, the fortunes of the Class 60 Fleet have ebbed and flowed, with locomotives being sold, re-sold and leased, but since 2019 the majority of locomotives are owned by DB Cargo (UK), with Beacon Rail and GBRf also owning vehicles. Of the 100 locomotives in operation, 71 are in storage; DB Cargo (UK) preferring to rotate its operational Class 60s, with around fourteen being in service at any one time.

R30373 The One:One Collection, Class 60, Co-Co, 60081 ‘Isambard Kingdom Brunel’

Designer: Brush Traction                        Entered Service: 1991             Era 11

No. 60081 was built at Brush Traction. The locomotive was delivered in November 1991 with a Trainload Metals Sector livery and ‘Bleaklow Hill’ as a name. 60081 gained a new lined GWR Brunswick Green livery and it was renamed ‘Isambard Kingdom Brunel’ on 5 August 2000 at Old Oak Common for the open day. 60081 became the Class 60’s ‘celebrity’ locomotive due to this. In 2020, Locomotive Storage Limited preserved the locomotive for static display and it is currently housed at the Margate One:One Collection.

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R30373 Hornby Class 60 Diesel 60 081 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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