AS IT progresses plans for a £2.6m upgrade of Toton depot to handle traffic for Toyota, DB Cargo has put 14 redundant Class 60s currently occupying space needed for the redevelopment up for sale.
Through an advertisement on its website at the beginning of August, the company invited potential bidders to register their interest. The locomotives listed for sale are: Nos. 60008/009, 60013, 60022, 60038, 60057, 60061/64, 60070/75, 60080, 60090, 60098 (named Charles Francis Brush, after the founder of the Brush company to mark it being the 1000th locomotive to be built at its works in Loughborough) and 60099 (painted in Tata Steel silver livery).