Class 50 Alliance Limited

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The Class 50 Alliance Ltd owns four Class 50 (English Electric Type 4The British Railways classification for diesel locomotives of 2000 bhp to 2999 bhp) diesel locomotives and operates a fifth which is owned by Class Fifty Operations Limited[1], in turn owned by a small number of its shareholders. The Class 50 Alliance Ltd was formed in 2013 by the merger of two groups, The Fifty Fund and Project Defiance.

The Alliance’s locomotives are:

No Owned by
50007 Hercules The Class 50 Alliance
50031 Hood Class Fifty Operations Limited: Operated by The Class 50 Alliance
50035 Ark Royal The Class 50 Alliance
50044 Exeter The Class 50 Alliance
50049 Defiance The Class 50 Alliance

50007 Hercules was acquired in November 2016 to be used primarily for mainline contract work.[2]

See also

Diesel Locomotives
List of preservation groups

References

  1. SVRLive
  2. Press release 7 November 2016

Links

Class 50 Alliance web site
50 Fund web site (still maintained)