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220 004 at Augustfehn on 26th September 1979. [Keith Bullock]V200 004 was built by Krauss Maffei in 1954. It was renumbered 220 004 in 1968 and was withdrawn from DB service on 25th June 1980, having been stopped on 6th March 1980. As one of the prototype batch of V200's (V200 001 - V200 005 were completed three years before the first production examples) this locomotive was subject to intensive trials and service testing, the results of which were used to make design improvements to the production locomotives. The prototypes entered regular service in 1954. The prototype V200's are visually quite clean, without the air vents on the nose ends above the lights, as well as having a steam locomotive style whistle fitted on the dome of the nose just below the centre pillar of the windscreen. On the production locomotives air horns were fitted behind the right hand nose air intake cover.
This locomotive was scrapped at Aw Trier by March 1982.
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220 004 at Augustfehn on 26th September 1979. [Keith Bullock]