British Rail Class 66

The British Rail Class 66 is a diesel electric freight locomotive designed by the Electro Motive Division of General Motors and introduced to Britain in 1998, built to replace older, less reliable freight locomotive classes on the newly privatized British rail freight operators. Its reliability and relatively low cost led operators to order it in large numbers, and the design was exported widely to continental Europe, where it became a common sight hauling freight in countries including Poland, Germany, France and the Benelux nations under various operator liveries.