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DB Cargo has offered another 16 Class 60s for sale, and this time they are in relatively good condition because all but one were beneficiaries of its Super 60 overhaul programme in 2011-13.
The invitation for tender was announced on February 29, only to be withdrawn 20 minutes later and the same list reissued on March 6, this time with 60100 shown as being ‘designated’.
They all have high engine hours. However, compared with locomotives sold recently to Cappagh and Land Recovery, they have not been heavily robbed (either legitimately by their owners or illegally).
They were mostly withdrawn and stopped because they had reached their engine hours, which would have triggered an overhaul that DBC was not prepared to finance.
Included in the sale are the first and the last of the class built, although 60100 does have a designation order on it because it was the last main line diesel locomotive to be built in the UK.
The full list is 60001/007/010/015/019/020/039/040/044/059/063/065/066/079/092/100. This leaves just six locomotives from the ‘Super 60’ programme yet to be offered for sale: they are 60017 (withdrawn August 2012), 60024 (July 2013), 60054 (October 2011), 60062 (June 2013), 60074 (December 2011), and 60091 (November 2011).
Following the recent sale of 12 Class 60s to Land Recovery and previous sales to GB Railfreight, Cappagh and Colas Rail, if these 16 vehicles are sold it will leave DBC with 35 Class 60s still to be disposed of.
Of these, 22 have never been offered for sale as yet (60011/017/024/034/035/043/045/049/054/062/067/069/071-074/083/088/091/094/097/500) and 14 have previously been offered
