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The class 92s with their long bodies and SNCF-style rectangular buffers easily stand out in a crowd of British Rail electric locomotives, with their design being 'tweaked' and 'updated' from the class 60 diesel locomotive design of the late 1980s, seeing as both the class 60 and class 92 are both Brush Traction Limited products. Also the class 60 diesel locomotive and the class 92 electric locomotive both have a Co-Co wheel configuration with similar-looking front ends, although the class 60s and class 92s were built for two totally different markets in terms of their respective freight operations. The class 92 locomotives broke new ground as the class 92s were to become the first 25kV AC/750v DC dual-voltage electric locomotives to be built under the auspices of British Rail as prior to that the only BR trains built with a 25kV AC/750v DC dual-voltage system were the former Great Northern Electrics class 313 EMUs built in 1976/77 and the former Thameslink class 319 EMUs built between 1988 and 1990.