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A view across a busy Hereford freight yard as an unidentified class 37 shunts coaches at the north end of the island platform, Platform 1. 22nd January 1985
Pairs of class 37s with HAA MGR hoppers were a common sight along the ex G&SWR lines for many years. Lochside June 1982
Leading loco identified as 37184.
Making a change from the usual Class 47 we see Class 37 37084 waiting to leave Liverpool Street with the 13:30 to Norwich. Also here were 08526. 31133/160/204. 37035/44/84/92/107. 47009/104. 01/12 1979.
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37039 & 37190 haul the 06.00 Glasgow_Mallaig past the Monessie Gorge on Fri 10th September 1982. 37190 had failed earlier at Tulloch, but by the time 37039 had arrived to assist, the fault on 37190 had been rectified. The pair worked in tandem to Fort William and 37190 continued to Mallaig. Not bad for the first day of my Freedom of Scotland and I was to have another pair (37026 & 37108) later in the day...
Class 37/0 No.37061 at Sunderland Dock 15th September 1984 with 37070 to the right. New as D6761 24th October 1962 and converted to 37799 on 13th august 1986.Left UK for Spain in June 2001 carrying number L27 where it was scrapped 31st March 2012 at the Celsa Group.
37424 & 37407 climb up to Dove Holes in dull and windy conditions with BLS's The Nosey Peaker railtour on Thurs 14th June 2018
The tour ran as 08.30 Stafford to Buxton to Crewe and 37401 was at the rear. 37424 is still running as 37558 'Avro Vulcan XH558'
February 4th, 1989
Healey Mills
Coal-sector Class 37 371(6)7, based at Cardiff at this time, leaves the yard to the east. The engine later became 37383.
Ref 64-01
Links: HM / Class 37 / Collections
Newly Named 37425 "Sir Robert McAlpine and 57004 working 6k73 Sellafield-Crewe via Maryport,photographed at Carnforth on 24/08/2013
37425 is seen sitting at Lairg on the far north line while working (0Z37) 09:30 Georgemas junction C.E. - Inverness Freight Sidings (DRS) it would wait here for about 20 minutes for (2H61) 10:41 Inverness - Wick would clear the Ardgay section!
Transferred to Cardiff from Eastfield earlier in 1989, Class 37/4 no 37407 Loch Long departs Hereford for Cardiff, with the 09:15 service.
Class 97/3 No.97301 departs Norwich for Great Yarmouth with 1Q98 14:16 Cambridge - Cambrdge Test Train on 22nd June 2017 with Colas Class 37/0 No.37175 on the other end ,Stock was 90609,977974,72639,9481.DRS Class 68 No.68002 Intrepid to the left waits on front of the 16:38 to Great Yarmouth.
At that time unbranded and repainted into two-tone grey, 37673 lurks on the Moorswater branch underneath the massive viaduct carrying the main line. A couple of the piers from the original viaduct can be seen. taken 21st April 1995. (t246-31f)
Class 37/0 No.37131 at Shirebrook on 12th April 1986.New to 88A Cardiff Canton as D6831 on 29th March 1963 and moved to CRDC,Wigan on 29th March 2000.She was sold to Harry Needle in July 2005 and was cut up at C.F.Booth,Rotherham on 13th April 2007.
37706 arrives at a packed Lancaster during a Network North West gala day heading from Barrow to Manchester Victoria.
Lookig as it would have done while based at March Depot on BR Eastern Region, Class 37/0 no 37109 is coupled up to a short rake of matching mark 1 coaches. Rawtenstall, 30 May 2009.
37602 on the climb up to Slochd 11/02/15 5Z37 0700 Mossend - Inverness. The 3 DRS coaches were enroute to Georgemas to assist in the recovery of a failed test train.
37402 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954-8.6.2013' seen on arrival at Lancaster with the 11.56 ex-Carlisle service on Sat 4th November 2017
A nice surprise to see 37254 "Cardiff Canton ", now in Colas livery, waiting in the works yard with a test train.
On 11 June 1999, Class 37/7 no 37798 made a rare appearance on passenger services on the North Wales Coast starting with the 09:17 from Crewe. The loco and stock are seen in the carriage sidings at Holyhead prior to working back to Crewe at 12:51.
DRS Class 37/4 No.37423 Spirit of the Lakes at Ipswich with MK2 No.9521 working 5Z68 10:20 Eastleigh Arlington - Norwich CP on 8th November 2017.The 37 had worked to Eastliegh from Crewe overnight.
1992 proved to be a bit of a class 37 bonazar in the Far North with various diagrams turned over from units to Loco and stock to allow the units to be used elsewhere.
Here 37196 leaves Inverness with the late evening sevice to Kyle on 25th August 1992.
Large logo Class 37 37803 run's into Crewe station with a freightliner train. I spent some time photographing here two intresting loco seen were D6700 ex works and D200 on a railtour. 02/04/1988.
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Class 37/4 no 37409 Loch Awe awaits passengers for the overnight sleeper service to London Euston on 8 June 1995.
Class 37/0 No.37070 at Sunderland Dock 15th September 1984 .New as D6770 at 51L Thornaby 17th August 1962 and withdrawn at Toton 15th July 1994.Used as an internal user vehicle at Toton from 2nd September 1995 for overhaul of Class 37 engines.She was withdrawn 9th May 1996 and stored outside at Toton until sold to Harry Needle in September 2002 for scrap which was completed on 14th July 2004.
On 26 June 2020, 37175 and 37219 pass the site of Hilgay station on 1Q99 test train from Cambridge to March via East Anglia.
Only two years after regular weekday loco haulage ended on the Marches route, Class 37/4s made a temporary return in February 1993 due to further problems with the Sprinter units. On 19 February, 37414 worked a morning Manchester Piccadilly to Cardiff Central service.
Railfreight Distribution - Tinsley allocated 37/0's stabled at the weekend on Arpley. Both locos still exist 37059 lost it's Port Of Tilbury nameplates in January 1995. When EWS had finished with it DRS took it on in 2002, now in 2022, 60 years old DRS have placed it in store, maybe another operator will take it on? www.class37.co.uk/fleet.aspx?strnumber=37059 37008 withdrawn by EWS 1999, now under renovation at Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre www.class37.co.uk/fleet.aspx?strnumber=37340
1P33 1650 Liverpool St-Lowestoft. The loco and stock then worked a local to Norwich. The same loco normally came back the next morning.
37091 was on the controller's list of locos 'banned' from the Cambridge line due to having roof-mounted horns. They could run via Seven Sisters but this usually caused delays so was quite rare.