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37417 had been at Thornaby TMD for a loadbank test. Then worked the Thrislington's 6N90/91, a short run to prove the engine.
37294 sits in long term warm storage in the shed at Crewe DMD.
Built as D6994 by English Electric at Vulcan Works (Works No. E3554/D983), it was delivered to BR Cardiff Canton depot on 8 July 1965.
In November 1973, it became 37294 under TOPS.
It spent its first 25 odd years based in Wales on the Western Region (1 move to Landore for 12 months in 1980, but mainly Cardiff based).
It very rarely worked passenger services (occasional rescue or relief train). Instead, it was mainly found on the South Wales coal and steel freights.
Under sectorisation in early 1988, it joined the FQLC Pool (Freight Coal Distribution Cardiff).
In December 1988, it moved to Petroleum (FPLW - Freight Petroleum & Chemicals South Wales).
In February 1992 it finally left Wales for Eastfield in Glasgow. 3 months later on 10 May 1992, it transferred to Inverness.
Allocated to the RAJV Pool (Regional Railways ScotRail - Inverness Locos) and mainly still on freight, it spent some time each summer on Scottish Highlands passenger trains (was not ETH fitted and summer workings did not need heating).
In March 1994, it was transferred to Motherwell and the LGBM Pool (Trainload Freight West - ML Class 37/0).
This meant it was available to assist on the steam heated Highland sleeper portions (which it often did, especially in 1995).
On 27 November 1998 with privatisation, it joined EWS and was allocated to the WKMB Pool (EWS Motherwell Class 37 - RETB fitted).
6 months later, EWS stored it to the WNXX Pool, removed its RETB equipment, isolated its vacuum brakes and readied it for a contract in France. It was allocated to the WKMF Pool - EWS Headquarters Class 37 (Special Projects) on 2 July 1999.
It was shipped through the Chunnel on 25 August 1999 and arrived back in the UK on 9 August 2000.
Sent to Tyne Yard for storage on 19 August 2000, it stayed there for 2 years.
On 2 September 2002, it was sent to Bescot, authorised for a B Exam and allocated to the WKAD Pool - to cover for locos on the Autumn Sandite season.
But the repairs took a lot longer than expected and it was touch and go whether it would work again as EWS stored even more Class 37s.
It even had a test run allocated on 10 December 2002 (with a Bescot to Washwood Heath engineers). But at the last minute, it was replaced with a Class 66 and sent back into the shed for more work.
Finally on 10 January 2003, Bescot sent it to Toton TMD to finish repairs. 5 days later it did a test run (light engine Toton to Castleton) and re-entered service.
Unfortunately, a month later, it was back in store again.
Initially noted on the Toton test bank on 13 February undergoing tests, the results were not good so it was stored from WKAD to the WNSS Pool on 16 February 2003.
6 months later EWS tried again (this time for use on the sandite trains).
After some time in the shed at Toton, it was noted on the wheel lathe and then the loadbank on 30 August.
It had a light engine test run on 4 September, some more test runs over the next few days and then was back in traffic on 10 September 2003 (initially WNSS Pool hired to WKSN).
On 24 September with sandite season starting, it was officially allocated to its last ever working pool (WKSN - EWS Toton Class 37 (Sandite Fitted)).
When the sandite season ended, it was stored again for a final time on 17 December 2003 to the WNTR pool at Crewe.
EWS closed Crewe DMD down as an active depot on 27 December and 37294 was pushed inside the locked DMD shed for storage.
Other than a February 2004 move to the WNXX pool, nothing happened for the next almost 5 years as it sat inside just getting pigeon droppings on it (like this photo).
On 9 October 2008, 37294 was put up for sale. In late December it was announced it had been bought by the CF Booth, Rotherham scrapyard.
On 5 March 2009 , it was towed to Crewe EMD to prepare it for road transport amid rumours it had been sold on.
The rumours proved true and on 25 March 2009, 37294 was delivered by road into preservation at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway, Skipton.
Its first run on the line was on 25 July 2009 and it was in regular use until 27 December 2020.
In 2022, after COVID pandemic restrictions ended, it was re-activated and is back in use😊 👍 .
Big thanks as usual for the websites with the info:
Ian Furness for his WNXX forum & Mick Parker for his class37.co.uk website.
Best viewed Original size.
Withdrawn (16/08/1981) and stored 20003 alongside the Tinsley depot Load Bank (former steam loco tender) - 11/10/1981.
© 2018 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency; photograph by Garry Cartwright.
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Preserved 47793, 4 months after it arrived at Mangapps Farm Museum.
This is one of the few Healey Mills storage lines demics that survived and found a new home.
I had sighted it there in 2005 and 2006, so was chuffed to see it here (and John Jolly was chuffed to have it 😊 👍).
Built as D1778 at Brush Loughborough, (Works No. 540), it entered service with BR from the Falcon Works on 23 October 1964.
Initially delivered to BR's Eastern Region and to Tinsley Depot, it also had spells at Holbeck, Immingham and Stratford before it got its first number under TOPS in February 1974 (of 47183).
More moves in the rest of the 70s saw it at Immingham again, York & Healey Mills.
It then had its longest spell anywhere when based at Stratford from September 1979 to March 1990.
In March 1981, it got fitted with ETH and became Sub Class 47/4 No. 47579. 6 months later in 29 September, it got its first name of "James Nightall G.C." (a fitting railway nameplate that still lives on with EWS' 66079 carrying it for the last 18 years).
It was moved to Old Oak Common in April 1990 when the Anglia trains no longer needed ETH stock and locos and got its first official pool code in December (NWRA: Network SouthEast - Western Region Locos).
Many more pool codes followed:
12/9 1to NTWE (Network SouthEast - West of England Class 47)
03/93 to NTWH based at Eastleigh (Network SouthEast - (West of England) Eastleigh Class 47)
05/93 to NXXB back to Stratford (Network SouthEast - Stratford EMU Transfer Locos)
03/94 to EWTS (Trainload Freight South - Stratford Class 47 New Stock Delivery
10/94 to EWAS (Trainload Freight South - Stratford Class 47 (Acton/Reading))
By now sectorisation was in and it was under the Trainload sector, which soon became an EWS division under privatisation.
In EWS’ Railnet/ RES postal division, it quickly moved sectors (4 times in 2 months):
07/95 to EWRS (Trainload Freight South - Stratford Class 47 Restricted Use)
07/95 to PXLH based at Crewe Diesel (EWS Rail Express Systems - Crewe Class 47/4 (Hire 75mph Maximum)
07/95 back to EWRS and again back to Stratford
09/95 to PXLB again at Crewe Diesel (EWS Rail Express Systems - Crewe (CD) Class 47 (Railnet))
While in the last pool, it entered Crewe Works and was rebuilt as a Class 47/7 (wired for use with PCV postal vans).
It initially was allocated 47757, but never carried this number as it was late entering the RCH modifications program. Instead, it was released in December 1995 as 47793.
6 months later on 24 June 1996, it was named Saint Augustine. It then worked postal trains in its RES livery until January 1999 and after that, both RES and the more general pools until early 2004. Its pool moves were:
01/99 to WHDP (EWS - Crewe Diesel (CD) Class 47/7 (Railnet))
04/99 to WHDM (EWS - Crewe Diesel (CD) Class 47/7 (Railnet) Modified)
06/00 to WHDN (EWS - Crewe Diesel (CD) Class 47/7)
12/00 to WHCD (EWS - Crewe Diesel (CD) Class 47 (Railnet/General))
By January 2004, the end of its working life was looming.
It had survived defects in May 2001 and got a bogie change that June.
It was under "Special Tests" assessment in January 2003, but repairs and "reliability modifications" were approved and completed in February as was a repaint into EWS livery.
After repaint and while it was undergoing loadbank tests at Toton on 11 February 2003, it got its last nameplates of "Christopher Wren".
On 12 February 2004, it was stored with 3 others as part of EWS' run down of the class (lack of work after losing the postal contact work to road freight + 250 reliable new Class 66s locos).
The next day, EWS re-instated it on Humberside freight workings for the day😊😂.
Unfortunately that was its last hurrah and it arrived the next day at Healey Mills. 2 days later on 16 February 2004, it was officially stored WNTR from the WHCD pool.
Its only move after that was a visit to Knottingley for de-fuelling in June.
On 17 January 2007, EWS put 47793 up for sale and it was bought by the Jolly family for the Mangapps Railway Museum. On 1 April 2007, it was shunted to the Marcroft Sidings at Horbury, loaded on a trailer and left for Essex.
It arrived at Mangapps Farm on 3 April and entered preservation 😊 👍
The last known engine hours for 47793 was 7,632 in 2003. So hopefully it has many decades running up and down its one mile of track at Mangapps.
NB: Big thanks as usual for the data and gen providers:
Ian Furness for WNXX and and people running Class47.co.uk 🙏🙏
Dated April 1986, this shows 37501 ex-works (after conversion from 37005), alongside 47492, plus a Class 47/7 in the background at the static test beds / load banks at Crewe Works.
Less than a year later, 37501 was repainted in a British Steel inspired baby blue livery.
Taken : 01.03.1992.
Ex class 84 009 is seen at Crewe Electric Depot its home base having been converted to a mobile load bank for testing locos. It was withdrawn from mainline use as a class 84 on 17.08.1978 after withdrawl was converted for its new use re-entering serice as such in 10/1979. It is seen here in the company of 85 101. The class 84 subsequently survived into preservation with the AC loco group.
Following the electrification of the West Coast Main Line, express trains hauled by electric locomotives began carrying passengers between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston in 1966.
British Rail AL6, later Class 86, locomotive E3190 was photographed at Manchester Piccadilly station in July 1967 painted in Electric Blue livery with the addition of a yellow warning panel on each end.
This locomotive was renumbered 86210 when British Rail adopted the TOPS system. It later passed to Rail Express Systems, British Rail's parcels sector, and then to EWS on privatisation in 1996. It was withdrawn by EWS in 2002 and acquired by Network Rail in 2004 after which it was repainted yellow, renumbered 86902 and used along with 86901 (former 86253) for loadbank testing before its final withdrawal in 2014.
Another mystery from 26th September 1982, 47 on loadbank test at Crewe Works. possible 47162 ?? anyone
All information very welcome.
223 and 083 sit inside the Ramps getting body overhauls whilst 221 gets put through its paces on the load bank
Photo taken during an official tour and uploaded with permission
221 stands on the Load Bank outside the Ramps in Inchicore. When a loco is on the bank, it shakes the place, as I found out a few months ago when working from an office on the site!
Photo taken during an official tour and uploaded with permission
221 stands on the Load Bank outside the Ramps in Inchicore. When a loco is on the bank, it shakes the place, as I found out a few months ago when working from an office on the site!
Photo taken during an official tour and uploaded with permission
East Coast "roarer". 84009 in departmental guise of ADB968021 is stabled in Hitchin upside siding on October 19th 1986. Electrification work in the Huntingdon area perhaps needing the 84 as a load bank.
221 stands on the Load Bank outside the Ramps in Inchicore. When a loco is on the bank, it shakes the place, as I found out a few months ago when working from an office on the site!
Photo taken during an official tour and uploaded with permission
signs of life amongst the silent.
Identifiable are:
1st row: 60086 "Schiehallion" and 60058 ex "John Howard"
00 gauge model of over head power supply test loco of converted class 84, formerly 84009. The loco started life in 1961 as E3044, later 84009 and was converted into the mobile loadbank in 1978, being withdrawn and cut up for scrap in 1995.
Another view of the test train at Hamilton West. In order, the locos were 66510, 86902, 86901, 66547. The purpose of the test was to determine the response of the traction power supply system and all co-existing infrastructure under load. 17 July 2005.
An appropriate headboard for 09026 to wear for the railtour. After its repaint the front end looks resplendent, the attention to detail is sattisfying! The railtour did indeed give 026 a workout, travessing over 8 miles within the depot, a chance to blow the cobwebs out.
00 gauge model of over head power supply test loco of converted class 84, formerly 84009. The loco started life in 1961 as E3044, later 84009 and was converted into the mobile loadbank in 1978, being withdrawn and cut up for scrap in 1995.
A returnee from Tasmania as number 30, this A.E.Goodwin-ALCo has now regained its original South Australian Railways number 864. Overhauled recently by Gemco at Forrestfield, the baby Alco is being prepared for service with Coote Industrial Ltd at their compund in Midland Perth. September 2009. The apparatus to the left of the locomotive is a portable loadbank for testing the loco.
the cab of 84009 at long marston in amongst ex DRS minimodal containers, Pendolino roof sections and class 47 parts
Moible loadbank ADB 968021 at Heaton Depot about Apr 91 shame there moved the vans in front of it as I when to get my camera.
Seen at Blisworth by the feeder station are NWR class 86 loadbank engines, 86901/902, sandwiched between two FL 66s, 66523 & 66559, as they prepare for the evening OHL possession.
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1964 - Dg on the load-bank - the test track is on the left. Eric was the loco inspector and Russ above was the Sub Foreman. A couple of apprentices on roof. The load bank was in the Thorndon Loco depot however the local residents complain about the noise especially when brought up to full power. so the bank was shifted to the Hutt Workshops.