25th June 1989

Merehead Open Day: Outside the main maintenance shed at Merehead are Class 59s nos. 59004 "Yeoman Challenger", 59003 "Yeoman Highlander" and 59005 "Kenneth J Painter". The latter locomotive was delivered a couple of years after the first four, if I recall correctly.

59003 "Yeoman Highlander" would eventually leave the UK for a new life in Germany, but come back home in 2015 and a new owner as part of the GBRf fleet. Remarkably still carrying its original name.