page_title: GB Railfreight
section_title: Fleet
hierarchical_section_title: GB Railfreight / Fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: Northbound GBRF container train on the Northampton Loop between Rugby and Long Buckby.
context_page_description: GB Railfreight is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom. It is owned by EQT Partners through its subsidiary holding company Hector Rail. Ownership is scheduled to pass to Infracapital in October 2019.
context_section_description: To commence operations, seven Class 66/7s were ordered. Subsequent orders brought the total purchased to 72 by the end of 2014 with a further seven delivered in 2016.
  In October 2012 three unused Class 66s, ordered by Crossrail Benelux but stabled in the Netherlands, were purchased and, later in 2013, a further two Class 66s that were previously in service in Europe were also obtained. These were numbered 66747 to 66751 in the GBRf fleet.
  GB Railways initially purchased six former Gatwick Express Class 73s. After GBRf won a contract to operate Network Rail infrastructure trains in the south -east, four were overhauled by Fragonset Railways. Subsequently, additional Class 73s were located and purchased, some from preservation, to give a total fleet (at July 2018) of 24 locomotives. Of these, eleven were completely re-engineered in 2014 and 2015, equipped with 1600 hp MTU diesel power units, with five dedicated to Network Rail infrastructure traffic in the south of England, the remaining six being transferred to Scotland for use on the diesel-hauled legs of the Caledonian Sleeper services.
  GB Railfreight has 16 Class 92 locomotives acquired by Europorte before the purchase of GB Railfreight.
  GB Railfreight has also utilised heritage diesel locomotives. Class 20s are used on London Underground S Stock moves between Derby Litchurch Lane Works, Old Dalby Test Track and London Underground's Neasden Depot. It hires these from various owners including Harry Needle Railroad Company. In mid-2014 five Class 47s were hired from Riviera Trains for a short period.
  GBRf has also hired in preserved locomotives, including Class 55 "Deltic" no. 55022 "Royal Scots Grey" and Class 52 "Western" no. D1015 "Western Champion".
  GB Railfreight also had a pair of refurbished Vanguard 0-6-0DH locos (re-numbered DH50-1 and DH50-2) for use at Tremorfa/Cardiff Tidal works. In December 2016, these were returned to Hunslet in favour of class 08 hired in from Harry Needle Railroad Company.
  To operate services on the Lackenby steelworks, Teesside network, eight 1996/97 built Maschinenbau Kiel built locomotives were purchased from Norwegian State Railways. They were classed as Di8.
  In August 2014 GBRf purchased 59003 from Heavy Haul Power International, Germany. This locomotive had originally been purchased by the Foster Yeoman group (along with its sister locomotives 59001/002/004/005), these being the first privately owned locomotives to operate under British Rail.
  In 2015 it was confirmed a further seven Class 66s would be purchased. Even though the locomotive type no longer conforms with emissions regulations, GBRf had purchased some spare EMD 710 engines, shipped them to the United Kingdom before the 31 December 2014 deadline and then returned them to the United States for fitting to the new locomotives to be delivered in 2016.
  In late 2017 DB Cargo UK sold ten Class 66/0s (66008/016/046/058/081/132/141/184/238/250) to GBRf, who allocated the 66780-789 series to them in ascending order. 66789 (formerly 66250), was outshopped in BR Large Logo Blue and named "British Rail 1948-1997" to commemorate BR's 70th Anniversary.  They also acquired three Class 47/7s from Colas Rail, for use on Caledonian sleeper and stock move duties (47727, 47739, 47749)
  In June 2018 GBRf acquired 16 of the Class 56 locomotives owned by UK Rail Leasing, together with various parts. Some may be returned to traffic quickly whilst others may be re-engineered. The locomotives were previously owned by DB Cargo and subsequently hired to Fertis for high speed rail construction trains in France; after their return to the UK they were acquired by UK Rail Leasing in 2014 for spot hire. Only 56081, 56098 and 56104 had been made operational by UKRL, with the majority stored at Leicester depot.
  Also in 2018 an agreement was reached with Colas Rail for GBRf to acquire all ten Class 60 locomotives that Colas had earlier purchased from DB Cargo (60002/021/026/047/056/076/085/087/095/096). These were to be released in two batches, the five standard fuel tank locomotives (60047/076/085/087/095) 
caption: GBRF hauled container train
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