66779 Evening Star Nameplate 19 October 2020

66779's Evening Star nameplate, photographed while the loco was stopped in the loop at Challow on 19 October 2020, whilst it was working the 6V32 10:23 Tilbury to Trostre Works steel empties. The small plaque describes how this was the last Class 66 to be built, and was named at the National Railway Museum in May 2016. Hopefully this loco will have a much longer life than the original BR 9F 2-10-0 Evening Star. That only lasted for just under five years. 66779 was just a few months short of that dismal record when this nameplate was photographed.