86702 on the East Coast Main Line in October 2009
87002 in Caledonian Sleeper livery at Edinburgh Waverley in May 2015

Electric Traction Limited was a British electric locomotive hire company. It operated some former British Rail Class 86 and 87 electric locomotives hired from associated company Europhoenix and the AC Locomotive Group from 2010 until 2019.[1]

Previous operations

ETL's first major operation began in 2010 when newly refurbished Class 86/7s, 86701 and 86702, entered traffic on 15 October 2010. Two days later the pair hauled their first revenue-earning train, a private charter for First GBRf from Newcastle to London King's Cross on 17 October. They later went on to work in Winter 2009/2010 on Royal Mail standby services and had several operations as the Network Rail's standby icebreaker locomotives.[1]

By January 2013 there were seven locomotives in the fleet.[2] In 2016, 86213, 86701 and 86702 were sold for further service in Bulgaria.[3][4]

Caledonian Sleeper

When Serco, with GB Railfreight contracted to provide traction, took over the Caledonian Sleeper in April 2015, issues arose with the Class 92 locomotives. Electric Traction Limited was contracted to supply 86101, 86401 and 87002, primarily to assist with stock and shunting moves but also to haul services from London Euston to Edinburgh and Glasgow on occasions.[5] These were hired from the AC Locomotive Group.[6] This enabled these locomotives to remain mainline certified and available for occasional charters. With the end of this work in May 2019, the locomotives were returned to the AC Locomotive Group and subsequently sold.[7][8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Electric Traction Ltd: Suppliers of AC Traction Solutions". Electric-traction.co.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "ELECTRIC TRACTION TO DISPOSE OF HERITAGE ELECTRIC LOCOS". Railway Herald. 26 January 2013. Archived from the original on 10 March 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Trio of 86s sold for export". Rail Magazine. No. 796. 16 March 2016. p. 26.
  4. ↑ "Europhoenix send more redundant 86s to Bulgaria". Rail Magazine. No. 798. 13 April 2016. p. 31.
  5. ↑ Clinnick, Richard (8 September 2015). "Serco confirms '90s' for Sleepers until '92s' prove their reliability". Rail Magazine. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "86/4 to receive Sleeper livery". Rail Magazine. No. 776. 19 June 2015. p. 27.
  7. ↑ "Class 86s and 87 for sale as Caledonian Sleeper contract ends". Rail Magazine. No. 890. 23 October 2019. p. 30.
  8. ↑ "Locomotive Services buys Class 86 and 87 from ETL". The Railway Magazine. No. 1425. December 2019. p. 105.
  9. ↑ "West Coast Railways secure 86401". Railways Illustrated. No. April 2020. p. 17.

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