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BR Class 66, no. 66108 at Didcot on 23rd August 2004. Image by Phil Scott (Our Phellap)

Class 66 66108 at Didcot on 23 August 2004. These locomotives operate the majority of EWS freight trains.

English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS), then a subsidiary of Wisconsin Central, bought most of British Rail's privatised freight operations. The locomotives that EWS inherited were at the end of their useful lives. EWS therefore went to General Motors' Electro Motive Diesel division (EMD), who offered their JT42CWR model, a development of the Class 59. 250 were ordered and were built in Canada in London, Ontario.

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