37372, 37667 Sherrington 27th March 2002
37372, 37667 power through Sherrington with 6Z86, the 14:30 Westbury to Eastleigh VQ. The train had been loaded earlier in the day with track ballast at Meldon Quarry.
The leading Mainline blue 37 was new to traffic at Cardiff Canton in July 1963 as D6859. It became a Scottish loco in the mid 60's but return to South Wales in 1972. By 1974 it had became 37159 and then in 1988 after a general overhaul the number 37372 was bestowed on it to signify it had CP7 bogies but had not gone through the refurbishment program.
After a patchy history of reallocation & in and out of store it was finally withdrawn on 9th July 2007. The HNRC then bought it who stripped it for spares and sent it to EMR scrapyard at Kingsbury where it was thought its long career would end.
Amazing it was purchased in Feb 2009 by the Baby Deltic project who have heavily modified the Class 37 by chopping in two (cut and shut) so as to create "new" Baby Deltic D5910.
As for 37667, the former D6851, 37151 is still in mainline service with LSL over 60 years after being introduced!
© Neil Higson
Mamiya 645 Slide Scan
37372, 37667 Sherrington 27th March 2002
37372, 37667 power through Sherrington with 6Z86, the 14:30 Westbury to Eastleigh VQ. The train had been loaded earlier in the day with track ballast at Meldon Quarry.
The leading Mainline blue 37 was new to traffic at Cardiff Canton in July 1963 as D6859. It became a Scottish loco in the mid 60's but return to South Wales in 1972. By 1974 it had became 37159 and then in 1988 after a general overhaul the number 37372 was bestowed on it to signify it had CP7 bogies but had not gone through the refurbishment program.
After a patchy history of reallocation & in and out of store it was finally withdrawn on 9th July 2007. The HNRC then bought it who stripped it for spares and sent it to EMR scrapyard at Kingsbury where it was thought its long career would end.
Amazing it was purchased in Feb 2009 by the Baby Deltic project who have heavily modified the Class 37 by chopping in two (cut and shut) so as to create "new" Baby Deltic D5910.
As for 37667, the former D6851, 37151 is still in mainline service with LSL over 60 years after being introduced!
© Neil Higson
Mamiya 645 Slide Scan