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Emended its short visit to Churnet Valley, it returned in January 2024
== 20048 in preservation ==
20048 was purchased in 1991 by '''The Midland Class 20 Association''' which had been formed in 1989. It was briefly based at Peak Rail in Matlock before spending a period on industrial hire to RFS Industries for use in construction of the Channel Tunnel terminal at Cheriton. It returned to preservation in May 1993 and was restored to its original BR green livery and number D8048 in 1998.
After spending time at the Battlefield Line at Shackerstone and the Great Central Railway at Loughborough, D8048 then began a second period of industrial hire in February 2002, on this occasion to Victa Railfreight for use at Charing; the main railhead for the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in Kent. After 14 months, D8048 was stopped by mechanical failure and moved to Wabtec at Doncaster for repair, after which it returned to the Great Central Railway around April 2005.<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/36034969@N08/28366494662 2002 Photo on Flickr + history]</ref><ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/37190-dalzell/24548654139/ 2006 Photo on Flickr]</ref>
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In February 2021 the Association completed the sale of the locomotive to '''Class 20189 Limited'''.<ref name=RI/> Class 20189 Limited was incorporated in 2006 as Company number 05742768; {{As of |2022 2024 | lc="y"}} Michael Owen is the sole Director.<ref>Companies House</ref> The company also owns Class 20 locomotives 20007, 20142 and [[BR Class 20 20189|20189]], all of which are the latter pair being main line registered and all of which have previously [[Diesel Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas|visitied visited the SVR for Diesel galas]]or other use.
===Loan to SVR===In June 2022 the SVR signed a deal with Class 20189 Limited to hire 20048, initially until October 2022 although it has continued in traffic beyond then, to assist working [[Bridgnorth]] based turns that were then seeing increased diesel usage due to coal supply problems. The locomotive, which had just completed a full overhaul, arrived by rail on 10 June in convoy with fellow Class 20s 20142 and 20007 (20048 not being main line registered). Its first day in traffic on the SVR was 15 June. On 1 December 2023 The loan period initially was until October 2022, although it moved 'temporarily' to the Churnet Valley Railway<ref>Rail Express magazine, February 2024, p.28</ref>has continued in traffic beyond then.
== See also ==
