Class 60 - Brush Type 5 - Co-Co

• Built 1989-1993 by Brush Traction at Loughborough.
• Mirrlees MB275T Engine of 2310 kW (3100 hp) at 1000 rpm.
• Brush Main Alternator, Brush separately excited Traction Motors.
• Maximum Tractive Effort of 500 kN (106500 lbf), Continuous Tractive Effort of 336 kN (71570 lbf) at 17.4 mph.
• Power at Rail of 1800 kW (2415 hp).
• Brake Force 74 t.
• Length over Buffers 21.34 m, Wheel Diameter 1118 mm.
• Weight 129 t, Route Availability (RA) Index of 7.
• Design Speed 62 mph, Maximum Speed 60 mph.
• Multiple Working within class only.
• Fitted with Slow Speed Control for MGR Working.

Members of Class: 60001 to 60100. All allocated to Toton Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD) and are in the EW Pool.

Class 60 Photographs.

60006 at the head of 58002 and 56133 at Toton on the 13th June 1993.	60006 at Leicester Depot on the 6th September 1992.
60013 at Nuneaton Station (West Midlands) on the 16th February 1993.	60018 pulls a train of stone through Kensington Olympia (London). This loco was at the time allocated to Stewarts Lane Depot (south west London). It is now allocated to Toton in Nottingham (as are all of the Class 60s) and is in English, Welsh & Scottish Railway Company livery (EWS).
60024 with 47145, 47209, 73101 and 73128 at Eastleigh on the 4th March 1993.	60025 at Eastleigh Station on the 19th March 1992.
60025 at Cardiff Canton Depot on the 10th October 1992.	60028 with metals at Barnetby on the 19th August 1992. Note semaphore signals.
Another 60 at Eastleigh on the 19th March 1992. This time 60033.	60036 stabled at Newport (Wales) on the 10th October 1992.
60036 pulling petroleum tanks through Cardiff Station on the 13th February 1993. A couple of Class 158 DMUs wait on the opposite platform. This loco is now in the EWS livery.	60038, 60048, 60012, 47642 and 25173 at Leicester Depot on the 6th September 1992.
60048 inside the shed at Toton TMD on the 13th June 1993.	60062 runs through Cardiff Central on the 10th October 1992.
60079 at Toton TMD on the 13th June 1993.	60082 at Barnetby on the 19th August 1992.
60086 pulls 58020 and 58032 at Derby Station on the 13th June 1993. This livery is the old Trainload Coal livery and all three locos in this shot are adorned with it. 60086 is named "Schiehallion" and is in the new Railfreight Livery with Mainline markings.	60089 with an Merry Go Round (MGR) train passing through Leamington Spa on the 15th February 1993.
60093 at Leicester on the 6th September 1992.

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