UK Rail Leasing
| Limited company | |
| Industry | Rail transport |
| Founded | 25 September 2013 |
| Headquarters | Leicester |
| Products | Rolling stock leasing |
| Parent |
Mark Winter Edward Stevenson |
| Website | http://ukrl.co.uk |
UK Rail Leasing[1] (UKRL) is a British railway spot-hire company.
History
UK Rail Leasing was formed in 2013 by Mark Winter and Edward Stevenson. It took out a three-year lease on DB Schenker's Leicester depot and purchased a number of Class 56 locomotives.[2][3][4]
Locomotives
The company owns 15 Class 56 locomotives:[3][5]
- 56 007/009/018/031/032/037/038/060/065/069/077/081/098/104/106/
UKRL has indicated it intends on returning 13 to service.[3][6] The Class 56 Group's preserved 56006 is also stabled at the depot as is Europhoenix's 37906, but neither are destined for use with UKRL.[7] UK Rail Leasing have freshly painted into unbranded Railfreight livery Class 56, 56081 and is already back in action, on hire to Freightliner to act as a Super Shunter at Crewe Basford Hall as around 13 December 2014.
References
- ↑ Companies House extract company no 8704791 UK Rail Leasing Limited
- ↑ "Stevenson takes on Leicester" Railways Illustrated October 2013 page 18
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "UK Rail Leasing's in-demand 56s set for overhauls" Rail issue 739 8 January 2014 page 12
- ↑ "UK Rail Leasing breaks cover" Railway Express issue 213 February 2014 page 40
- ↑ British Railways Locomotives & Coaching Stock 2014, Platform 5 Publishing, Sheffield, pp 34-35, ISBN 9781909431096
- ↑ "UKRL Class 56s destined for main line return" Rail issue 753 23 July 2014 page 17
- ↑ "Europhoenix buys 37906 from Ruston 906 Group" Rail issue 735 13 November 2013 page 34
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