Classic traction passes through Roade cutting in the form of veteran AC1s 86622 and 86632. They are working the 4M54 10.10 Tilbury to Crewe Basford Hall Freightliner service. After entering service on the WCML in the summer of 1965 as E3174 the leading locomotive went through a number of identities. From TOPS on 01.01.73 it became 86022, then from May 1980 it was 86322, from November 1985 it changed again to become 86422 and finally into this, probably its final number in the spring of 1990. 86632 is a year younger dating from 1966 and went through the same pattern of number changes throughout its life.
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