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Originally Posted by Seabrook
When you open the External Doors on a Class 66 you enter a small passageway and the Cab doors are on the back wall of the Cab. 2 Doors No'1 end and 1 Door No'2 End. This reduces draughts and noise due to the cab doors also being sound insulated. The external doors are just formed sheets of steel. No'1 cab is large and spacious. No'2 end cab is a lot smaller and suffers from noise and severe overheating in Summer due to being situated in front of the radiators and cooling fans.
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The reason for the small cab (No 2 End) is that these locos were designed as a single cab loco and EWS asked for another cab to be fitted which was a "modular" one bolted to the radiator end of the loco.