page_title: Arriva Trains Wales
section_title: Fleet at end of franchise
hierarchical_section_title: Arriva Trains Wales / Stations served / Fleet at end of franchise
caption_attribution_description: A rather crude quality image of one of Arriva Trains Wales' Class 57s standing in a siding between Platforms 11 and 12. Taken from the latter platform.
context_page_description: Arriva Trains Wales was a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that operated the Wales & Borders franchise. It ran urban and inter-urban passenger services to all railway stations in Wales, including Cardiff Central, Cardiff Queen Street, Newport, Swansea, Wrexham General and Holyhead, as well as to certain stations in England such as Hereford, Shrewsbury, Chester, Crewe, Manchester Piccadilly and Birmingham New Street.
  The company began operating in December 2003, taking over from Wales & Borders. Following the introduction of the Railways Act 2005 and Transport Act 2006, responsibility for the franchise was held by the devolved Welsh Government. Arriva Trains Wales' franchise expired in October 2018, and the company did not bid to renew. It was succeeded by Transport for Wales.
context_section_description: Arriva Trains Wales services were operated by diesel trains only, as there were no electrified railway lines in Wales. Arriva Trains Wales operated a fleet of 125 diesel multiple units. It also leased 3 locomotive-haul units for express services between Holyhead and Cardiff, and had occasionally used hired-in locomotives to run extra services for sporting events.
  ATW inherited a fleet of Class 142, 143, 150, 153, 158 and 175s from Wales & Borders. The Class 175s were a common-user fleet, with 11 required by First TransPennine Express each day.
  In the early years of the franchise, ATW operated locomotive-hauled services using Mark 2 carriages on services from Cardiff Central to Rhymney and Fishguard Harbour hauled by English Welsh & Scottish Class 37s and FiftyFund Class 50s, and from Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly to Holyhead hauled by Freightliner Class 47s and Virgin Trains Class 57s. ATW built up a fleet of 20 Mark 2 carriages to operate these; all had been withdrawn by 2007, most of them being stored at Long Marston.
  ATW received 12 Class 150s cascaded from First ScotRail and another from One in 2004/05. In December 2006 another eight were transferred from First Great Western, notionally to provide stock for the Borderlands Line and Ebbw Valley Railway services. Following the delivery of new stock to First TransPennine Express in 2006, all of the Class 175s became available to ATW, resulting in 16 Class 158s being released for transfer to other operators.
  In 2006, heritage unit 121032 was purchased by ATW for use on the Cardiff Bay Shuttle. The unit was overhauled by LNWR, Crewe, entering service with ATW on 17 August 2006. In 2013, the unit suffered an engine failure. This could not be rectified, meaning that the unit was withdrawn. It was then used as a source of spare parts by sister company Chiltern Railways.
  In November 2007, another 9 Class 150s were transferred from Central Trains. From February 2008, 5 Class 150s (150278-282) were subleased to Great Western Railway. This was later reduced to 4 and then 2, the last returning in 2011.
  In December 2008, the loco-hauled Holyhead to Cardiff Premier Service was inaugurated. It was hauled by Class 57s on hire from Virgin Trains, initially in top-and-tail formation and later singularly, hauling three standard class MK2s and a MK3 first/buffet. 4 Class 57s were repainted at Cardiff Canton and six Mark 2s were refreshed at Eastleigh Works. Class 67s took over from the Class 57s in March 2012, and MK3s refurbished by Pullman Rail from the Mark 2s in October 2012. From October 2011 until August 2012, 150280 was subleased to National Express East Anglia/Abellio Greater Anglia. In December 2014, a further MK3 set was introduced on services from Manchester Piccadilly-Holyhead/Llandudno.
caption: 57314 at Crewe in March 2009
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