Curated By Clive Smith
37372 Banbury 21st January 2001
Nick worked for British Rail and Network Rail and his expertise was semaphore signalling and although based in Newton Abbot his work would take him as far as Shrewsbury and Banbury. This photo was taken on one of his weekends woking at the latter.
37372 sets back by Banbury North signal box while on ballast train duties. This 37 was first introduced into service in June 1963 as D6859 and was renumbered 37159 and spent many years on the western region. It was renumbered 37372 in May 1988.
It was withdrawn in 2007 and bought by The Baby Deltic Project in 2009. The nose of 37372 has been shortened as well as the body length and class 20 bogies are being used. The group purchased the sole Napier Deltic type T9-29 engine and generator set from the National Railway Museum in 2001 and that will end up inside the bodyshell of what is now D5910. I've probably rather simplified a long long process costly in terms of money and time and effort !
37372 Banbury 21st January 2001
Nick worked for British Rail and Network Rail and his expertise was semaphore signalling and although based in Newton Abbot his work would take him as far as Shrewsbury and Banbury. This photo was taken on one of his weekends woking at the latter.
37372 sets back by Banbury North signal box while on ballast train duties. This 37 was first introduced into service in June 1963 as D6859 and was renumbered 37159 and spent many years on the western region. It was renumbered 37372 in May 1988.
It was withdrawn in 2007 and bought by The Baby Deltic Project in 2009. The nose of 37372 has been shortened as well as the body length and class 20 bogies are being used. The group purchased the sole Napier Deltic type T9-29 engine and generator set from the National Railway Museum in 2001 and that will end up inside the bodyshell of what is now D5910. I've probably rather simplified a long long process costly in terms of money and time and effort !