British Rail Class 86
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The British Rail Class 86 is a type of electric locomotives built during the mid-1960s. Developed as a standard electric locomotive from earlier prototype models, one hundred were built in 1965-66 to
86244 The Royal British Legion at Wolverhampton (1984)
Class 86/2, no. 86252, at Birmingham New Street with a cross-armed AEI pantograph during the BR blue era. This locomotive was originally numbered E3101, the class pioneer.
86430 at Coventry in InterCity livery (1987)
Two Class 86/6s on a container train at Northampton (1996)
British Rail Class 85
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The British Rail Class 85 is an electric locomotive that was designed and produced at British Rail’s Doncaster Works during the early 1960s. While largely developed by BR, much of its systems can be a
British Rail Class 86
…Great Britain; all are in private ownership. The class was developed as a result of experience with the earlier prototype classes 81, 82, 83, 84 and 85; these had been produced by different manufacturers in the early days of the WCML electrification, as test-beds for locomotive development. The AL6…
85018 at Birmingham New Street in 1986
A Class 85 at the front of a train at Euston in 1966, shortly after the introduction of electric services.
Class 85, no. 85101 Doncaster Plant 150 1853-2003, on display at Doncaster Works open day in 2003