The shed was soon expanded by a further road, because the locomotive fleet increased significantly to handle the heavy traffic on the line.

The locomotive fleet currently based on the line is listed below.

Of its locomotive fleet, 493, or ten percent, were out of service.

By the late 1990 and early 2000s discussions were underway to find possible solutions to issue of the ageing electric locomotive fleet.

Similarly, America's railroad companies acquired 827 new locomotives last year, but that raised the nation's locomotive fleet by only 157, to 18,161.

That company's locomotive fleet used the line between here and Chapeltown in order to move between the two sites.

From the 1920s the locomotive fleet comprised about 7 permanent locomotives, painted green with yellow outline stripes.

Some support for these theories was given by the young age and high quality of the British locomotive fleet.

"The aging of the locomotive fleet does not imply a shortage in the short-term; the problem is rather obsolescence."

The locomotive fleet has a varied history.