The invention provides a locomotive vehicle running gear bearing holder fault pre-alarm method.According to the method, a composite sensor and a detection instrument are installed on a locomotive vehicle running gear bearing seat for online data acquisition and preprocessing, time domain impact SVi data, time domain vibration Vi data and temperature data Ti are generated, the time domain impact characteristic value SVmax and the time domain vibration characteristic value VRMS are calculated, fast Fourier transform is conducted, a corresponding shock frequency spectrum and a vibration frequency spectrum are obtained, an impact fault characteristic mark Ib and a vibration fault characteristic mark Vb are obtained through processing, a temperature pre-alarm mark Tb is obtained through calculation with temperature data, trend analysis is conducted on the Ib, the Vb and the Tb sequence data, and an alarm or pre-alarm is given according to the trend analysis result.The locomotive vehicle running gear bearing holder fault pre-alarm method is high in diagnosis accuracy, easy to master, high in operability and wide in application range; scientific operation or maintenance guidance opinion is provided, planned maintenance is converted to state maintenance, safety of the locomotive vehicle is greatly improved, maintenance cost is saved, and operation economic benefits are raised.