RT Rail
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RT Rail is a small railway spot-hire company, that specialises in Class 08 shunting locomotives. Its fleet is available to hire to both industrial and railway operators. Customers have included Bombardier Transportation at Ilford Works, Freightliner, First ScotRail at Inverness, and Silverlink. The company also owns a single Class 20 locomotive, which is currently on loan to the Weardale Railway.
[edit] Fleet Details
| Key: | In service | Withdrawn | Preserved | Under repair | Scrapped |
|---|
| Number | Class | Livery | Year Acquired |
Previous Operator | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08308 | 08 | Caledonian Sleeper | ? | ex-Preserved | Operational | On hire to First ScotRail, Inverness |
| 08375 | 08 | RT Rail Black | ? | ex-Preserved | Operational | - |
| 08436 | 08 | RT Rail Black | ? | ex-Preservation | Preserved | Preserved at Swanage Railway in 2004 |
| 08493 | 08 | BR Blue | 2004 | ex-EWS | Stored | Pending overhaul |
| 08523 | 08 | Mainline Freight Blue | 2004 | ex-EWS | Operational | On hire to Albion Chemicals, Sandbach |
| 08529 | 08 | BR Blue | 2005 | ex-EWS | Stored | Pending overhaul |
| 08535 | 08 | BR Grey | 2004 | ex-EWS | Stored | Pending overhaul |
| 08573 | 08 | RT Rail Black | ? | ex-Bombardier | Operational | On hire to First ScotRail, Inverness |
| 08588 | 08 | RT Rail Black | 2005 | ex-Maintrain | Operational | - |
| 08613 | 08 | Non-standard Blue | ? | ex-Bombardier | Operational | On hire to Bombardier Transportation, Ilford |
| 08648 | 08 | Yellow | 2004 | ex-First Great Western | Operational | On hire to ICI, Winnington |
| 08750 | 08 | RT Rail Black | ? | ex-EWS | Operational | On hire to Imerys, Quidhampton |
| 08754 | 08 | Freightliner Green | ? | ex-ScotRail | Operational | - |
| 08756 | 08 | BR Blue | 2004 | ex-EWS | Stored | Pending overhaul |
| 08762 | 08 | RT Rail Black | ? | ex-ScotRail | Operational | On hire to ICI, Winnington |
| 08788 | 08 | RT Rail Black | ? | ex-Preservation | Operational | On hire to Trafford Park |
| 08815 | 08 | BR Blue | 2005 | ex-EWS | Scrapped | Sold for scrap in 2005 |
| 08819 | 08 | BR Blue | 2004 | ex-EWS | Stored | Pending overhaul |
| 08873 | 08 | Rail Express Systems | ? | ex-EWS | Operational | On hire to Trafford Park |
| 08874 | 08 | Silverlink | ? | ex-EWS | Operational | On hire to Silverlink, Bletchley |
| 08885 | 08 | GBRf Blue/Orange | ? | ex-Preservation | Operational | On hire to GB Railfreight |
| 20189 | 20 | BR Green | ? | ex-Preservation | Operational | On loan to Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway |
