Delivered into Newport Docks on the MV Fairload on 6 June, 2000, 66789 entered into service with EWS numbered as 66250. On 15 December, 2017 the locomotive passed into GBRf ownership and on 27 February, 2018, now painted in British Rail Blue with large logo, it was renumbered as 66789 and named British Rail 1948-1997.