TOPS Renumbering
As with many diesel classes, the TOPS renumbering was implemented in a straightforward manner, with the locomotive numbers remaining in sequence. Thus 6701 became 37001 and D6999 became 37299; while D6600 - D6608 became 37300 - 37308. The remaining locomotive, D6700 became 37119 instead of D6819 which became 37283. As members of the class were altered later in their careers, they were renumbered, some more than once.
D6983 had been withdrawn in December 1965 following a fatal collision with a derailed Class 47, number D1671, in South Wales, near Bridgend as the result of a landslip. D6983 was the first EE Type 3 to be withdrawn and as a result, the only locomotive in the entire class not to receive a TOPS number. The remains of both locomotives were sold to local scrap merchants R.S. Hayes and cut up the following year.
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