Passing queried taxonomy

I hope I’m posting this in the right forum…

In my theme, I created a page that lists all terms from a taxonomy, this then links to a page that displays all posts of that taxonomy, each item is then linked to their respective post. The taxonomy template uses <?php single_term_title(''); ?> to display the queried taxonomy term name. How can I pass that queried taxonomy term to the single page template to then be used?

I tried using the <?php single_term_title(''); ?> but that didn’t seem to work. I’m sure it’s a simple bit of code, but I can’t find it in all my searching.

Additional information
This is for a custom post type, “Services” with custom taxonomy, “Locations”.

Here’s the part that lists my taxonomies:

<?php
    $terms = get_terms('locations');

        $temp = '';
    foreach($terms as $term):
        $title = $term->name;
        $first_letter_lower = strtolower(substr($title, 0, 1));
        if($temp != $first_letter_lower){
            echo '<div class="locations-'.$first_letter_lower.'">';
            $temp = $first_letter_lower;
        }

        $first_letter = strtoupper(substr($title, 0, 1));
        if($temp != $first_letter){
            echo '<h3>'.$first_letter.'</h3><hr />';
            $temp = $first_letter;
        }
?>
<ul>
    <li><a href="<?php echo get_term_link($term);?>"><?php echo $term->name ;?></a></li>
</ul>

<?php endforeach;?>

Here’s the part for the taxonomy page template:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
    <header class="archive-header">
        <h1 class="archive-title">
            <?php single_term_title('Services in '); ?>
        </h1>
    </header><!-- .archive-header -->
    <ul>
    <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();?>
        <li>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentytwelve' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
        </li>

    <?php endwhile;?>
    </ul>

<?php else : ?>
    <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'none' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>