Class 37 37283 - Healey Mills (early 1980s)
The notes for this neg read simply: 37283 at Healey Mills - Sadly no date give but it is certainly between 1980 and 1986.
Class 37 37283 entered service in March 1963 numbered D6819, received its first coat of BR Blue livery in June 1969, and was then renumbered to 37283* under TOPs in February 1974. Then, in September 1986, it entered Crewe works for conversion to Class 37/7 (added ballast, re-geared CP7 bogies, etc.) and emerged in February 1987 wearing the RF large logo grey livery and renumbered to 37895. This livery lasted until early 1991, when the engine was given the RF two-tone grey treatment complete with Coal Sector logos. In September 1996, now an EWS engine, it acquired the maroon and cream livery, which would turn out to be its final coat of paint.
July 2001 saw 37895 dispatched to Italy for work on the high speed line engineering contract there, returning to the UK in March 2003, but then dumped into storage at Bescot in June 2004 following a short stint on Sandite duties. It lingered in the yard at Bescot until transferred by road to EMR, Kingsbury, in March 2011, where finally it was cut up during September 2011.
* Under TOPs, D6700 took D6819's number (37119) and so D6819 was instead given the spare number 37283 - which would have gone to D6983 had the engine not been withdrawn due to accident damage in 1966.
(Photographer: Unknown)
35mm Negative | Date: Early / Mid 1980s | © TJW: ROTWSI
Class 37 37283 - Healey Mills (early 1980s)
The notes for this neg read simply: 37283 at Healey Mills - Sadly no date give but it is certainly between 1980 and 1986.
Class 37 37283 entered service in March 1963 numbered D6819, received its first coat of BR Blue livery in June 1969, and was then renumbered to 37283* under TOPs in February 1974. Then, in September 1986, it entered Crewe works for conversion to Class 37/7 (added ballast, re-geared CP7 bogies, etc.) and emerged in February 1987 wearing the RF large logo grey livery and renumbered to 37895. This livery lasted until early 1991, when the engine was given the RF two-tone grey treatment complete with Coal Sector logos. In September 1996, now an EWS engine, it acquired the maroon and cream livery, which would turn out to be its final coat of paint.
July 2001 saw 37895 dispatched to Italy for work on the high speed line engineering contract there, returning to the UK in March 2003, but then dumped into storage at Bescot in June 2004 following a short stint on Sandite duties. It lingered in the yard at Bescot until transferred by road to EMR, Kingsbury, in March 2011, where finally it was cut up during September 2011.
* Under TOPs, D6700 took D6819's number (37119) and so D6819 was instead given the spare number 37283 - which would have gone to D6983 had the engine not been withdrawn due to accident damage in 1966.
(Photographer: Unknown)
35mm Negative | Date: Early / Mid 1980s | © TJW: ROTWSI