90 050 "and so as it was in the end" along with 90 022 and 92 011 at Crewe ETD.
The first class 90 to be withdrawn sadly was also the last to enter service. 90 050 suffered a transformer fire at Coventry on 30/9/2004 while working 4M73 an Ipswich to Ditton container train. Although owned by Freightliner Ltd the loco was dragged to the EWS Depot at Crewe ETD for assessment and it was deemed too costly to repair, it was formerly stored unserviceable by Freightliner on 13/12/2004. (It has never been officially withdrawn pending scrapping but for all intense and purpose it is unlikely to ever work again). Its demise left Freightliner short of class 90's as they only had 10 where as EWS had 25 on their books, some of which were already stored surplus. EWS hired 90 016 to Freightliner as it had been in warm storage since 7/4/2004, it re-entered traffic on 30/10/2004 as a direct replacement for 90 050. In December 2004 90 016 was returned to EWS but not for long as some sort of exchange deal was done which saw 90 016 sold to Porterbrook Leasing who leased it to Freightliner in part exchange for 90 050. 90 016 was dispatched to Toton paint shops and it was repainted green by EWS in February 2005. Wrecked 90 050 then moved the other way from Poterbrook Leasing to EWS. Since the takeover by Deutsche Bahn in 2009 the shell of 90 050 now belongs to Arriva Trains UK Ltd a subsidiary of DB, all very confusing.
In this image 90 050 sits in a deteriorating state five years after it was stored along with 90 022 behind, this loco being laid up on 21/9/2006 and hasn't been used since. For company they have 92 011 named 'Handel' another stored out of traffic machine at the time having been laid up on 12/12/2005. The class 92 has been more fortunate though and after seven years stored has come back being reinstated on 2/8/2012 and is one of the few in the active DB Cargo UK fleet.
90 050 "and so as it was in the end" along with 90 022 and 92 011 at Crewe ETD.
The first class 90 to be withdrawn sadly was also the last to enter service. 90 050 suffered a transformer fire at Coventry on 30/9/2004 while working 4M73 an Ipswich to Ditton container train. Although owned by Freightliner Ltd the loco was dragged to the EWS Depot at Crewe ETD for assessment and it was deemed too costly to repair, it was formerly stored unserviceable by Freightliner on 13/12/2004. (It has never been officially withdrawn pending scrapping but for all intense and purpose it is unlikely to ever work again). Its demise left Freightliner short of class 90's as they only had 10 where as EWS had 25 on their books, some of which were already stored surplus. EWS hired 90 016 to Freightliner as it had been in warm storage since 7/4/2004, it re-entered traffic on 30/10/2004 as a direct replacement for 90 050. In December 2004 90 016 was returned to EWS but not for long as some sort of exchange deal was done which saw 90 016 sold to Porterbrook Leasing who leased it to Freightliner in part exchange for 90 050. 90 016 was dispatched to Toton paint shops and it was repainted green by EWS in February 2005. Wrecked 90 050 then moved the other way from Poterbrook Leasing to EWS. Since the takeover by Deutsche Bahn in 2009 the shell of 90 050 now belongs to Arriva Trains UK Ltd a subsidiary of DB, all very confusing.
In this image 90 050 sits in a deteriorating state five years after it was stored along with 90 022 behind, this loco being laid up on 21/9/2006 and hasn't been used since. For company they have 92 011 named 'Handel' another stored out of traffic machine at the time having been laid up on 12/12/2005. The class 92 has been more fortunate though and after seven years stored has come back being reinstated on 2/8/2012 and is one of the few in the active DB Cargo UK fleet.