The class 16 locomotives were built to work cross border services from

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. They are equipped to run in

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and

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. They have been displaced from these workings by

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and ended up working a few peak hour commuter trains until 2007 when they were withdrawn with two of them saved for preservation. When built they were classified as type 160.

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