page_title: British Rail Class 87
section_title: Post-Privatisation service
hierarchical_section_title: British Rail Class 87 / Post-Privatisation service
caption_attribution_description: English: Train at Colwich Junction.
context_page_description: The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive built in 1973–75 by British Rail Engineering Limited. Thirty-six of these locomotives were built to work passenger services over the West Coast Main Line. They were the flagships of British Rail's electric locomotive fleet until the late 1980s, when the Class 90s started to come on stream. The privatisation of British Rail saw all but one of the fleet transferred to Virgin Trains. They continued their duties until the advent of the new Class 390 Pendolinos, when they were transferred to other operators or withdrawn between 2002 and 2007. There is only one Class 87 still in use in Britain, 87002, which was initially preserved by the AC Locomotive Group and is now owned by Locomotive Services Limited. It was previously in use with Serco Caledonian Sleeper and is intended for use on charter services. A large proportion of the fleet have now been exported to Bulgaria.
caption: 87025 'County of Cheshire' in 2002. One of the last Class 87s to be in service with Virgin Trains. The locomotive is painted in Virgin Trains' red and black livery.
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