Welcome to the website of the Class 58 Locomotive Group!

The web source for all things Class 58!

Latest update: News page (more news on foreign 58s and Facebook page launched) updated.
(Site Updated: 20-May-09; 06:55)

* SPONSORSHIP * : “£58k for a 58” - help the Class 58 Locomotive Group raise funds through this excellent new sponsorship scheme. Sponsor your favourite part of a loco, but be quick before it goes!

This website is dedicated to the Class 58 locomotives and is home of the Class 58 Locomotive Group online. There are many interesting pages which can be accessed by clicking on the links on the left hand side. We are able to offer detailed looks at the organisations the Class 58s have worked for in their relatively short time on the UK network, as well as detailed looks at their operations overseas in Spain, France and the Netherlands.

The News page will be updated as often as possible, so please check back often. The best way to be kept informed of the news, though, is to become a member of our Group. The £10 annual membership means you receive the quarterly issues of our house magazine, Red Diamond (so-called after the multiple-working code of the Class 58s) as well as invitations to all Group activities, which will include working parties for Project 58051 once we find a ‘home’ railway on which to base ourselves - excellent value for money! To date we have over 110 members in our Group – all united with the ultimate aim of one day seeing at least one Class 58 desel-electric locomotive preserved.

If you don’t want to commit yourself and join the Group, that’s fine! There are many other ways in which you can help, such as making a donation to Group funds, purchasing some items from our excellent sales range, or by joining the Fifty Eight Club where you are in with a chance of winning monthly cash prizes!

Perhaps wagons are more your thing? That’s great as we’ve recently been discussing the possibility of preserving some of the ‘first generation’ H-coded MGR wagons, such as the HAA types! These wagons may well have changed the course of Class 58 history! If you would like to get involved, I suggest you take a look at the MGR Wagon Fund pages and let us know your thoughts on the subject! Hopefully we can encourage you to get involved with this exciting new venture!

You can also read about our exciting Project 58051 - a ‘spare’ Class 58 cab which we hope to convert into an operational model.

Finally, if you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact us through the Contacts page. We are very happy to help in any way we can.

Thank you for taking the time to look at our site and we hope this leaves you suitably impressed. Our members are proud to belong to the C58LG, and rightly so. We are very active in our approach, but above all we are professional. The Group is something which we are all very passionate about and we do hope you will consider becoming a member to help us achieve our goal.



Paul Fuller,                
Chairman, C58LG             
paul.fuller@c58lg.co.uk                      

Alex Fisher
Vice Chairman, C58LG
alex.fisher@c58lg.co.uk

Keith Bulmer
Technical Officer, C58LG
technical@c58lg.co.uk

Alan Wilson
Membership Secretary, C58LG
membership@c58lg.co.uk

Chris Lowe
Publicity Officer, C58LG
publicity@c58lg.co.uk

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