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Locomotive Services Limited
7locomotive classes in service
1liveries recorded
0ports, terminals and yards it serves
Facts
- Legal name
- Locomotive Services Limited (company no. 5237785)
- Owner
- Jeremy Hosking (as at October 2026)
- Founded
- 2018 (operating licence Aug 2017)
- Headquarters
- Crewe Diesel TMD, Cheshire
- Traffic
- rail tours and charters (no freight haulage described)
- Depots
- Crewe Diesel TMD, Margate (Locomotive Storage Ltd), Southall
unverified Some of these figures haven’t yet been checked against an official source or a published history. What’s in doubt ↓
Locomotives
| Class | Number | Note | As at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class 20 | 4 | heritage | October 2026 |
| Class 37 | 5 | heritage | October 2026 |
| Class 47 | 8 | heritage; 47830 bought from Freightliner 2024 | October 2026 |
| Class 57 | 6 | charter | October 2026 |
| Class 60 | 1 | heritage | October 2026 |
| Class 90 | 3 | charters | October 2026 |
| Class 73 | 1 | preserved | October 2026 |
Counts come from sources of different dates and are indicative. No drawings yet: the classes and their dimensions.
Liveries 1
- BR green and other BR heritage liveries current on Class 37, Class 90, Class 20, Class 60
Mostly BR green, with BR blue, BR black, GWR lined green, LNER garter blue, Midland Pullman blue and white, and a Freightliner green repaint. Logo: none.
Described in words: no operator publishes colour codes, so none is given. The logo is left off every drawing (the site is independent of every operator).
Sources
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Show the 8 sources from Wikipedia, RAIL magazine, Direct Rail Services
- Locomotive Services Limited Wikipedia (secondary; must be paired), 2026-10-25company and fleet
- British Rail Class 20 Wikipedia (secondary; must be paired), 2026-10-25infobox
- British Rail Class 37 Wikipedia (secondary; must be paired), 2026-10-25infobox, 2024 fleet summary
- Europhoenix Rail Ltd to continue after buy-out by aggregates firm RAIL magazine, 2026-07-3111 Europhoenix
- Direct Rail Services announces retirement of Class 37 locomotives Direct Rail Services, 2024-01-22DRS retirement
- Colas Rail Wikipedia (secondary; must be paired), 2026-10-25Colas 8
- British Rail Class 90 Wikipedia (secondary; must be paired), 2026-10-25full dimension set
- How Freightliner locomotive fleets are splitting after intermodal sale RAIL magazine, 2026-02-1127 with Freightliner
unverified
- No freight haulage found; included to answer the brief.
- Counts are the Wikipedia article's own tally (tagged as needing more citations).
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