As one of the very earliest Class 56s 56003 arrived in the UK in February 1977 and as a portent of things to come it was constructed away from our shores by Electroputere in the Romanian city of Craiova. In September 2008 it was renumbered 56312 and has since been named 'Jeremiah Dixon Son of County Durham Surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line USA' (to give it its full name!). Now wearing its rather drab DCR colour scheme it approaches Ferry Meadows leading the 15.30 Peterborough Nene Valley to Wansford service.
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