Decomissioning of Rolling Stock

[TRAINenthusia1]

Hi, Does anyone have any information on what train companies do with their rolling stock after they have taken it off their services? im finding it hard to find any information online so anything that anyone might know will be very useful

 

[westcoaster]

Older stuff takes a one way trip to the scrappers. Most have a total destruction order on them. So no parts being sold on.

 

[43096]

Hi, Does anyone have any information on what train companies do with their rolling stock after they have taken it off their services? im finding it hard to find any information online so anything that anyone might know will be very useful

Most stock is leased, so the TOC will hand it back to the owner. It is up to the owner what then happens: stored, scrapped or if it has a new lease signed with a different operator.

 

[AlistairCowell]

Older stuff takes a one way trip to the scrappers. Most have a total destruction order on them. So no parts being sold on.

And send every single of piece scrap to China.

Or perhaps Scunthorpe, seen pictures of scrap being placed on scrap wagons at the Newport shredder.

 

[snowball]

Most trains in Britain are owned by one of a handful of rolling stock companies. The original three, when British Rail was privatised in the 1990s, were Angel Trains, Eversholt, and Porterbrook. The operating companies usually lease their trains from these. When a lease expires the train goes "off lease" and the rolling stock company decides whether to keep it in the hope of being able to lease it out again, or send it for scrap. There are a small number of scrapyards around the country that take trains. Their names and locations are well known to rail enthusiasts.