Landfill Check

British Rail Engineering Limited/Locomotive Works

Industrial

British Rail Engineering Limited/Locomotive Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Derby, City of Derby. It received industrial waste between 1956 and 1982, covering about 0.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD22952, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22952
Site nameBritish Rail Engineering Limited/Locomotive Works
AddressBritish Rail Engineering Limited, Derby
Site operatorBritish Rail Engineering Limited
Licence holderBritish Rail Engineering Limited
Licence issued20 June 1978
Licence surrendered12 January 1983
First waste input31 December 1956
Last waste input31 December 1982
Area0.8 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference436600, 335600

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

What this data does — and doesn't — cover

  • Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
  • Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
  • Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
  • Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.

EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.