Accurascale ACC3012

Class 66 - DB - 66190

Name: Accurascale ACC3012 Class 66 - DB - 66190
Brand: Accurascale
SKU: ACC3012
Price: 215.94 GBP

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Prototype Era
Era 9 (1995 to 2004) Initial Privatisation

Manufacturer description

Originally part of the ‘Red Revolution’, a term used to describe the dominance of English, Welsh and Scottish (EWS) class 66’s across the UK freight scene, 66190 arrived on British soil early in the year 2000. One of 250 near identical locomotives, 66190 was put to work almost immediately on a wide variety of freight work, as the class 66’s were the “go anywhere” type at EWS’s disposal. The first modification came in the summer of 2001 as 66190 was fitted with the now standard swinghead buckeye coupler (locomotive 66200 and above had these fitted from new along with revised lashing eyes)

66190’s first turn in the limelight came on the 19th July 2003 when it hauled the Mossend to Inverness leg of Pathfinder Tours’ Grampian Gyrator. Incidentally, fellow Accurascale Exclusive 66001, worked Stafford to Crewe then Crewe to Stafford on the same tour. 66190 settled back in to its normal working life again until mid-2007 when it was readied for transfer to Euro Cargo Rail (ECR), at Toton. ECR was a subsidiary of EWS, as EWS sought to widen its market in to the European Railfreight business. Despite German operator DB buying the EWS business in 2007 and rebranding to DB Schenker taking place in 2009, ECR continued to be known as such until 2021 when it rebranded as DB Cargo France.

During June 2021, 66190 was returned to DB Cargo stock in the UK via the channel tunnel and headed to Toton depot in Nottinghamshire for a full overhaul and conversion back to UK specification. It emerged in standard ‘De-branded’ EWS maroon and gold livery, albeit with new LED lighting clusters and was used on many routes around the midlands before returning to Toton during early 2023 for a full repaint in to DB house colours.

A very shiny 66190 made its way to York on the 2nd of June 2023 for a naming ceremony, where its “Martin House” plates would be revealed by Rosie Mellor-Silvester, from the Martin House charity. 66190, as a standard pool locomotive is used all across the country from china clay work in the southwest to Biomass in the north but its always treated as a bit of a “pet” by DB staff, the white wall tyres and silver buffers being maintained as much as possible, makes this locomotive stand out from the rest of the fleet

Catalogue listing

Brand

Accurascale

Product Code

ACC3012

GTIN

0781005471339

RRP

£215.94

Release date

December 2024

Model details

Livery

Tooling date

2025

DCC status

DCC Ready 21 pin socket

Finish

Pristine

Running number

66190

Prototype information

Locomotive class^*

Class 66

Motive power

Diesel

Built

1998-2014

Total produced

446

^* Class names often change over the lifespan of a locomotive, so this is not necessarily the class name used by the operator in the period modelled.

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Accurascale Class 66 – DB – 66190 is a model locomotive in DB livery, representing the Class 66 type. The model carries the manufacturer part number ACC3012 and depicts the period of initial privatisation of UK rail freight.

The prototype locomotive entered service in early 2000 as one of 250 similar units built for English, Welsh and Scottish (EWS). In summer 2001 it was fitted with a swing‑head Buckeye coupler, a modification later standard on locomotives 66200 and above. Its first public appearance was on 19 July 2003 when it hauled the Mossend‑to‑Inverness leg of Pathfinder Tours’ Grampian Gyrator. The locomotive remained in regular freight duty until mid‑2007, when it was transferred to Euro Cargo Rail (ECR) at Toton, a subsidiary created by EWS to expand into European rail freight.

Following the acquisition of EWS by Deutsche Bahn in 2007 and the later rebranding to DB Schenker, 66190 stayed with ECR until 2021, when it returned to DB Cargo stock in the United Kingdom via the Channel Tunnel. After an overhaul at Toton depot and conversion back to UK specification, it emerged in a de‑branded EWS maroon‑gold livery with LED lighting clusters, before being repainted in DB corporate colours in early 2023.

On 2 June 2023 the locomotive was taken to York for a naming ceremony, during which the “Martin House” plates were presented by Rosie Mellor‑Silvester of the Martin House charity. Within the DB fleet the locomotive is treated as a “pet”, with its white‑wall tyres and silver buffers regularly maintained, and it is used on a variety of freight services from south‑west china‑clay trains to northern biomass movements.