Complex sentence: In their new guise, the locomotives survived well into the 1970s; the first to be withdrawn was EB 27 in 1976, and two years later, the class leader, EB 25, was also removed from service.
Split into simpler sentences: In their new guise, the locomotives survived well into the 1970s. The first to be withdrawn was EB 27 in 1976, and two years later, the class leader, EB 25, was also removed from service.