Withdrawal and Disposal
Two EF class locomotives have been withdrawn from service:
EFs 30036 and 30088 were withdrawn from service following a derailment caused by a washout at Oio (north of Raurimu) on 7 August 1991 that also killed the locomotive engineer. After recovery from the site the two heavily damaged units were stored at Hutt Workshops until the decision was made that it was both uneconomic to repair the units and they would be surplus to existing requirements. Both units were scrapped at Hutt Workshops – EF 30088 was completed in April 2003 and EF 30036 in February 2007 – with usable salvaged parts used to support the remainder of the fleet.
As noted above three further units – EFs 30065, 30128 and 30186 – have been in long-term out-of-service storage at Palmerston North as surplus to operational requirements.
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