Class 66 - Freightliner (60th Anniversary) - 66501 Livery_Silver until called to South Wales

until called to South Wales in May 2019 to provide power for Cardiff-Rhymney line commuter turns along with hired-in Nos

the Type 3 was first allocated to Gateshead but would also call Hull Dairycotes

14 ‘Heavyweights’ were exported to Spain in mid 2001 for use with Continental Rail (GIF) for construction of the AVE (Alta Velocidad España) high speed network

finely detailed bogies

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Class 66 - Freightliner (60th Anniversary) - 66501 Livery_Silver until called to South Wales66501 was the first Class 66 to arrive in the UK for another operator, in this case Freightliner, on 17 July 1999 aboard the M. V. Gajah Borneo. On 19 July 1999, the locomotive was formally handed over at Newport Docks before making its way to Ipswich for acceptance. It settled into normal Freightliner intermodal operations and gained the name Japan 2001 to commemorate Freightliners support of the Japan 2001 Festival. It remained in this condition