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I can’t quite believe that it’s been 30 years since the last Brush Class 60 was accepted into traffic by British Rail. Maybe that’s just my brain refusing to acknowledge the passing of time (and my advancing years), but it really doesn’t seem like so long ago that I was hoping to see my first ‘Tugs’ on freight trains around the Warrington area.
Having been a little too young to fully understand what was happening with the Class 58 programme, the ‘60’ was the first new traction type that I clearly recall moving from the planning stage to reality, with the drawn-out process being charted via my dad’s regular purchase of Rail Enthusiast magazine (now RAIL).