Peter Kerslake says "Now somewhat ruined by the connecting leads and cables this front end view of 76010 shows how the buffers and drawgear of the EM1 Class 76 locomotives were fitted to the bogies rather than to the locomotive bodies as was the more usual practice, a feature not incorporated in the later and larger EM2 design .
The reasoning behind this design was that impacts and stresses caused by both double headed and banking duties would be kept away from the main body of the locomotive , the twin four wheel bogies being connected by a shock absorbing fitment running below the main body and linking the two bogies .
Guide Bridge would have beeen the first stop for eastbound passenge workings from Manchester and was the junction for services to Ashton Under Lyne as well as being a stabling point for locomotives "