Contrary to what you might believe from this photograph, 60011 is in fact at walking pace just restarting the incredibly heavy 6N11 11.38 Redcar to Scunthorpe Trent flyash train. The train had come to a halt, with the wagons straddling Stainforth Junction in the distance, for a driver to alight from the cab and get into a taxi that was waiting in the station carpark. The relief driver then did a skilled job with the three thousand one hundred bhp available to him to get the train moving. This type of train is exactly what a class 60 was designed for, and one that they operate with no fuss despite coming up for thirty years old.
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