Modern locomotive nameplates can sometimes seem a little
obscure at first sight. Stainless Pioneer was named in 2013 at Tinsley,
Sheffield, to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of stainless steel.
Class 60 No. 60062 is seen heading Monday lunchtime’s Kingsbury to Humber
refinery between Rolleston and Staythorpe. It passed by shortly after a stoat
had wandered across the tracks. The tip of its tail looked like it had been
dipped in black ink.
Sporting her DB Cargo red livery, Stainless Pioneer is one
of the class taken from storage and restored at Toton as part of the Super
Sixty Project - an overhaul programme designed to improve reliability and give
those examples selected an extra fifteen years working life.
No. 60062 has also been chosen by Hornby Railways as an “00”
scale model representative of the class. Talking of centenaries, Frank Hornby
produced his first clockwork train in 1920, the company, itself, having made
Meccano sets in Liverpool from 1901.
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