The Harry Needle Railroad Company (HNRC) is a

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company, based at

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. Prior to 2010 the company also recovered valuable spares from scrapped railway vehicles, either on the vehicle owners site, or at the

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scrapyard in

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. HNRC was established in 1998. It adopted an orange livery. In 2002 it introduced a yellow, white and black livery. In 2019, HNRC purchased DB Cargo UK's Worksop depot. As at October 2019, this was being used to store withdrawn InterCity 225s and Class 345s awaiting the opening of the Elizabeth line.First LNER Mk4s taken to Worksop for storage ''Rail'' issue 880 5 June 2019 page 29

Fleet Details

All locomotives below are owned or were previously owned by HNRC, unless otherwise stated.
N.B. For scrapped locomotives, see below.

Scrapped locomotives

HNRC also operates as a scrap dealer, dismantling redundant locomotives and rolling stock, either on site, or at the scrapyard in

. Details of all locomotives scrapped are shown below. Those listed in bold were dismantled at Kingsbury.

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