Delivered into Newport Docks on board the MV Stellanova on 7 November 2008, 66434 went into service with Direct Rail Services, retaining the DRS Compass livery until 18 February 2010, when the locomotive was hired out to Fastline for use mainly on their coal flow traffic. When Fastline/Jarvis plc went into administration, 66434 was returned to DRS and the locomotive went back into traffic in Malcolm Rail's livery, operating on rapid rail operations between the Midlands and the central belt of Scotland between 29 December 2011 and 22 September 2014.