January - Intercity Railway Society

13 (649, H049) Long Marston Open Day, 6 th June 2009
before moving to Electro Motive Diesels, Longport
(photo by Neil Dix)
Once NS stopped using the shunters in the early 2000s seven of them have been repatriated to the
UK. Of the seven four are of the later radio controlled version. Several of the locos are privately owned
by BARs (see below) and are hired out to various industrial sites. The others are preserved or stored
at preserved sites. It is not clear exactly which are fully preserved though the doyen of the class 601
does fall into that category and is currently out of service in the museum at the Ribble Steam Railway.
British American Railway Services Limited (BARS) is a British railway rolling stock hire, maintenance
company, and railway owner in the United Kingdom. It was formed to acquire the assets of ECT Rail
Holdings in 2008. Subsidiaries of British American include RMS Locotec, Weardale Railway, Dartmoor
Railway, and Devon and Cornwall Railway. British American was formed by Iowa Pacific Holdings, an
American shortline railroad holding company.
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