This class 66 is one of two Beacon Rail Class 66 locomotives that are now with GBRf. This locomotive was previously in service on the European mainland.

This class GBRf class 66 was previously in Metronet colours. It was repainted by Arlington Fleet Services at Eastleigh Works. Sir Peter Hendy OBE was the Commissioner of Transport for London in 2014.

Doncaster railway station is in South Yorkshire and it is 156 miles from London Kings Cross. Doncaster station is now (2019) managed by LNER. Doncaster station is on of the East Coast Main Line (ECML).  Doncaster is one of the main railway stations on the ECML.

Doncaster station has eight platforms on two islands platforms. Platforms one three and four and eight are through platforms. Platforms six and seven are bays at the north of the station on the down side. Platform two and five are south-facing bays on the up side. It now has another (new) platform with the number 0 on the up side at the norther end.

There is a good mixture of train operators who now run thier services to from and though Doncaster station. LNER now( 2019) runs the main ECML trains replacing Virgin East Coast  East Coast and NXEC and GNER be for them . First Hull Trains also run there trains though Hull to London. Cross Country and Northern Rail trains together with First TransPennine Express and East Midlands Trains also use this station

Doncaster's Great Northern Railway railway works was called The Plant. It was established by the Great Northern Railway in 1853. This railway works is (or what is left of it now ) next to the station on the west or down side of the station. LNER A3s and A4s were just two of the many classes of steam engines that came out of these works.

 

Pages at Doncaster railway station in 2014.

1 Sky 1 HD 91125 in 2014

 

2 East Coast class 91s in July 2014

 

3 GBRf class 66s in 2014  This Page

 

4 Class 66s in 2014

 

5 More in July 2014 at Doncaster station