The Class 60 was a Type 5 heavy freight locomotive built by British Rail in the late 1980s, designed for the Trainload Sector which included coal, oil and metal loads. The Class 60 used a version of the engine which had been tested in the
Class 37/9 and a shared body shell with the
Class 92 -
itself an updated and simplified version of the
Class 47 /
56 outline [1]. The extra available power of the Class 60 allowed for longer heavier trains and for the double heading of trains using older classes of diesel to be eliminated.
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DCR 60 028 at Derby |