66591 passes Hatfield Peverel station at, what I would have estimated to be, its maximum sixty miles per hour; it certainly left quite a draft in it wake felt while standing on the station's relatively narrow platform. The Freightliner 66 was hauling the 4M93 13.30 Felixstowe to Hams Hall (Birmingham) service that was just a short distance into its journey. Apart from the first and the last few miles, this journey is entirely under the wires but despite this, a diesel (usually a Class 70) is still thought to be the best form of haulage. Maybe some more creative thinking is required to enable its to be electrically hauled?
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