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Return to Ladybower & the Derwent Waters and the 'Minions' once more at Bamford - 9777

As usual, GBRf sets are well turned out and this one, 66761 is no exception, it being one of the recent deliveries from the USA in 2014, some information regarding this-

Number:66761

Class: 66/7

Depot: PG - GBRf Peterborough

Pool: GBNB - GBRf Class 66 New Build

Livery: G9 - GBRf - Blue with Mustard Yellow Cabs, Orange cantrail & solebar stripes and 'GB Railfreight part of Europorte' branding

Builder: General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Indiana, USA.

Built: Unknown

Arrival date: 5/9/2014

Works Number: 66761

Named: 17/07/2015

'Wensleydale Railway Association 25 Years 1990-2015', named at Leeming Bar railway station by Richmond MP Rishi Sunak.

 

And visible, in convoy after is had arrived at Newport in Wales, when it passed through this area with other newly arrived 66s, see-

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and on the Bardon return aggregate empties working at Nunnery in Sheffield in May, 2015-

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Today it is heading another set of empties, this time a set of old HTA Bogie Coal Hoppers, now being used for mineral work to and from Peak Forest, this one with around 18 empties, to be taken to the Cemex Works close to Peak Forest signal box. 66761, was named 'Wensleydale Railway Association 25 Years 1990-2015' at a ceremony in Leeming Bar, near RAF Leeming close to the A1, north of here between Catterick and Boroughbridge in July 2015.

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Uploaded on December 19, 2018
Taken on December 17, 2018