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Contemporary and Heritage-Preserved, Diesel, Diesel-Electric and Electric Locomotives
Picture Gallery of Class 37 diesel-electric locomotives
DRS operated diesel-electric locomotive Class 37 37716 parked at York station (January 2023)
DRS Class 37 diesel locomotive 37218 at York station sidings (September 2022) Class 37/0 37218 entered service as D6918 1964 and is currently operated by DRS (Direct Rail Services) - as you can see in the retro livery style.
A still rather dilapidated Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive D6836 in the yard of its operator UK Rail Leasing, Leicester (August 2022) D6836 entered service in 1963 and has been designated as a Class 37/9 locomotive and carried the number 37905.
Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive 37422 D6966 "Victorious" (6966), in plain blue livery, parked near the south end of York Station (23/04/2022) Class 37/4 37422 also carried the numbers 37266 and entered service in 1965 as D6966
Class 37/4 diesel 37422 has also been named "Cardiff Canton" after the locomotive depot there. Still operated by DRS?
The yard of UK Rail Leasing Leicester where you regularly see Class 37 diesel electric locomotives. A general view of the yard of a variety of motive traction at UK Rail Leasing, Leicester, including Class 37 locomotives, one on the right.
Class 37 diesel locomotive 37906 at Leicester diesel depot - stabling point. Class 37 37906 carries the British Rail logo and the Railfreight logo. This Class 37 locomotive is one of two purchased by UK Rail Leasing based at the old diesel depot just north-east of Leicester station. Class 37/9 also carried the numbers 37206 and entered service in 1963 as D6906. and operated by UK Rail Leasing, Leicester.
In classic British Rail BR Blue livery, Class 37 diesel-electric 37401 named "Mary Queen of Scots" (originally D6968 entering service in 1965, then numbered as Class 37 37268) built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry Works in 1965.
Class 37 diesel locomotives like 37558 named Avro Vulcan XH558, are regularly park at York Station (August 2021). 37558 entered service in 1965 as D6979 and also carried the numbers 37424 and 37279 and is operated by Direct Rail Services.
The original Diesel-Electric Co-Co Class 37 D6700 built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry in 1960 (other numbers D6700 later carried were 37119/37 119 and 37350/37 350). D6700 entered service in 1960 and is one of several preserved Class 37 diesel-electric locomotives.
Class 37/4 Diesel locomotive Class 37 37422 Victorious, owned by Direct Rail Services (DRS), built as D6966 in 1965 at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Works, also later numbered 37266 prior to Class 37/4 conversion. 37422 has also carried the names "Robert F. Fairlie Locomotive Engineer 1831-1885" and "Cardiff Canton" (York Station, August 2021)
Class 37/5 diesel locomotive Class 37558 "Avro Vulcan XH558", owned by Direct Rail Services, built as D6979 in 1965 at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Works (37558 has also carried the name "Isle of Mull" and numbers 37279 and 37424) (York Station, August 2021)
An extremely mucky Class 37 37424 aka 37558 Avro Vulcan XH558, now in Network Rail yellow livery (York station, Jan 2022)
DRS liveried Class 37 diesel locomotive 37218, built in 1964 at English Electric's Vulcan Foundry Works and still working after 56 years! (York Station, Aug 1st 2020).
Europhoenix operated Class 37 (sub-class 37/6) diesel locomotive 37608 ANDROMEDA exiting UK Rail Leasing yard at Leicester Station (Feb 2020) Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive 37608 entered service in 1961 as D6722 and has also carried numbers 37512 and 37022.
Europhoenix operated Class 37 diesel locomotive Sub-class 37/5 37510 Orion in the Leicester yard of UK Rail Leasing Class 37 37510 entered service in 1963 as D6812 also carried the number 37112 and is operated by the Rail Operation Group.
Class 37 37250 on the Wensleydale Railway (August 2019). Diesel locomotive 37250 entered service in 1964 as D6950, withdrawn in 2000 but is low one of the Class 37 preserved locomotives.
Derby yards: Diesel shunter 08588 in front of Class 37 97304 "John Tiley" (Network Rail yellow livery) and on the right Class 37 locomotive 37423 "Spirit of the Lakes" (July 2019)
Derby yards: Class 97301 (Network Rail yellow livery) (July 2019). Class 97 ex Class 37 locomotive 97301 entered service in 1962 as D6800 and has also carried the number 37100.
Class 37 diesel locomotive 37714 "Cardiff Canton " (Class 37 714) bringing a Leicester train into Loughborough (GCR Diesel Gala, Sept. 2017) Class 37 diesel locomotive 37714 entered service in 1961 as D6724 and has also carried the number 37024.
Class 37 diesel locomotive 37714 (GCR Diesel Gala, Sept. 2017)
A nice portrait of Class 37 diesel locomotive 37714 "Cardiff Canton"
DRS Class 37 37/2 diesel locomotive 37218 parked by York station
Class 37 diesel locomotive 37800 parked by Derby station (18/01/17), all decked out in the livery of the Rail Operating Group Euro phoenix Class 37 diesel 37800 entered service in 1963 as D6843 and also carried the number 37143.
A West Coast Railways Class 37/5 diesel locomotive Class 37 37669 diesel passing south through Crewe station (05/09/2016) Class 37 locomotive 37669 entered service in 1963 as D6829 and also carried the number 37129
Colas Rail's Class 37 diesel loco 37116 at the head of a Network Rail test train at Carlisle station (31/08/2016). Class 37 locomotive 37116 entered service in 1963 as D6816 and is operated by Colas Rail.
Portrait of Class 37/0 37025 "Inverness TMD" in Carlisle station at the rear of the same Network Rail test train as above. Class 37 diesel locomotive 37025 entered service in 1961 as D6725 and is now operated by Colas Rail
DRS Class 37 diesel locomotive 37409 "Lord Hinton" entering Carlisle station with a 'Northern Rail' service from Barrow on the Cumbrian Coast Line(31/08/2016). Class 37 locomotive 37409 entered service in 1965 as D6970 and has also carried the number 37270.
Driving Trailer Van 9704 was built Derby in 1974 converted in 1979 and
now operated by DRS on the Cumbrian Coast Line. 9704 is a Driving
Brake Standard Open (DBSO) type of railway carriage, converted to
operate as a control car. 9704 was converted from Mark 2F Brake Standard
Open (standard class coaches with brake van) carriages with
modifications including adding a driving cab and TDM equipment to allow
a locomotive to be driven remotely. Using a system known as push-pull,
the driver in the DBSO can drive the locomotive (in this case a Class 37
diesel), even though it is at the rear of the train.
Class 37 37409 departing for Barrow with a Cumbrian Coast Line train for Barrow.
NYMR's Class 37 diesel loco 37264 running light from Grosmont station, entered service in 1965 as D6964, withdrawn 2001 and preserved (very nice flower bed, July 2016).
D6700 in York NRM, Feb 2014. All cleaned up in BR green livery.
DRS operated Class 37 diesel locomotive 37059 at Leeming Bar station waiting to depart with a passenger train for Redmire (Wensleydale Rail Beer Festival, Wensleydale Railway, May 2016) Class 37 locomotive 37059 entered service in D6759 and is operated by Direct Rail Services.
NYMR's Class 37 37264 (37 264) brings a train from Pickering into Grosmont station
Class 37 Class 37/5 37518 FORT WILLIAM (37 518, ex 37076, D6776) built in 1962 by English Electric, Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd. Seen here in Intercity Swallow livery at York NRM.
An InterCity carriage in the same livery as Class 37 37518 above.
Type Class 37 locomotive 37602 (37 602) standing at York Station sidings, operated by DIRECT RAIL SERVICES. Class 37 locomotive 37602 entered service in 1962 as D6782 and has also carried the numbers 37502 and 37082.
Heritage diesel-electric locomotive: Ex BR maroon liveried diesel-electric Co-Co locomotive Class 37516 standing in York Station near the NRM. It is operated now by WEST COAST RAILWAYS. Diesel Class 37 37516 (37 516) was built by English Electric as D6786 (D 6786), later numbered as 37 086 (37086) before being converted to its present form. It is an ex EWS freight locomotive (EWS = English, Welsh and Scottish Railway Ltd., the largest rail freight organisation formed after privatisation in the 1990's.
The Barrow Hill Roundhouse: Blue liveried Co-Co English Electric Class 37 37275 (37 275, D6975, D 6975) called STAINLESS PIONEER built at the Vulcan foundry in 1965.
Diesels on the Great Central Railway: Type Diesel Class 37 37314 (37 314) named 'DALZELL' after a Scottish steelworks - I like the Scottie dog emblem (37314 built 1964, initially numbered D6980, then 37190).
Diesels on the Great Central Railway: Co-Co Diesel locomotive Class 37 37255 in a dilapidated state at Quorn and Woodhouse Station (other numbers 37 255, D6955, D 6955). Built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry Works in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire in 1965.
Class 37 37264 (37 264) in Grosmont sidings on the NYMR (I like the little Scottie dog on the side!).
Class 37 Co-Co Diesel-electric locomotive 37003 (37 003, D6703, D 6703) built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry in 1960. Shown in its British Rail blue livery in Shildon NRM museum yard.
NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: Type C0-Co Class 37 37264 built in 1965 by English Electric approaching Goathland with a train from Pickering, another diesel at the rear of the train.
NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: Class 37 37264 standing in Grosmont Station.
NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: 37264 leaves Grosmont with a train for Pickering.
Class 37 D6700 descending down to Esk Valley on the NYMR
With a Pickering-Grosmont train, Class 37 37264 passing Moorgates in poor weather!
NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: Class 37 37264 leaves Levisham for Goathland and Grosmont (Class 73 on left).
Class 37 D6700 passing Grosmont sheds
A double header of two DIRECT RAIL SERVICES (DRS) locomotives Class 37 37607 (37 607) and Class 47 47853 travelling light and heading south from York passing Copmanthorpe Crossing in June 2013. Class 37 37607 entered service in 1963 as D6803, also carried numbers 37511 and 37103.
DRS owned Class 37 601, Class 37 diesel locomotive 37601 named Class 37-Fifty, photographed at Doncaster (Sept. 2013), it entered service in 1961 as D6705, also carried numbers 37501 and 37005 and operated by the Rail Operations Group.
Class 37 250, Class 37 diesel locomotive 37250 in a somewhat dilapidated state at Leeming Bar station on the Wensleydale Railway. Class 37 37250 was built at the Vulcan Works, Lancashire in 1964 and carried the BR number D6950 (D 6950).
DRS Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive 37667 with a yellow coaches Network Rail train at Peterborough (snapshot from a East Coast mainline train!). Class 37 locomotive 37667 entered service in 1963 as D6851, also carried the number 37151,
Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive 37674 (ex 37169) being restored on the Stainmore Railway, Kirkby Stephen East. Class 37 37674 is now working on the Wensleydale Railway (August 2014). Entered service in 1963 as D6869
D6700 at the NYMR 2014 Heritage Diesel Gala
Class 37 diesel locomotive 37264 at Grosmont with disinterested admirer! at the NYMR 2014 Heritage Diesel Gala
Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive 37264 leaving Grosmont for Pickering at the NYMR 2014 Heritage Diesel Gala
A rather grubby, but no doubt hard working, DRS Class 37 diesel locomotive 37606 at York station with a snow plough companion!
DRS Class 37 diesel 37606 in somewhat cleaner condition at York (June 2017)
Class 37 diesel locomotive 37219 at Doncaster station, in the yellow, black and orange livery of Colas rail Freight. 37219 is one of the few Class 37 locomotives to carry a name, namely, "Demelza"
Colas Rail Freight Class 37 diesel 37219 at York Station (Dec. 2019)
A pair of Class 37 diesel locomotives in the early morning - Wensleydale Railway Diesel Gala (July 2015) Class 37 locos 37674 (D6869 37169 above/below built in 163 by English Electric Vulcan Foundry) and D6757 (37057 above also built in 1962)
Class 37674 heading into, and out of, Redmire on the Wensleydale Railway
Class 37 diesel loco D6757 in the rear of a Wensleydale Railway Diesel Gala train (July 2015)
In British Railways green livery, Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive D6836 in the yard of UK Rail Leasing, Leicester (November 2015 above, Dec 2019 below). Class 37 D6836 was later renumbered 37136 and 37905 and named 'Vulcan Enterprise. This Class 37 diesel was built by English Electric/Vulcan Foundry in Darlington Works in 1963.
Class 37 diesel locomotive 37425 "Concrete Bob" and "Sir Robert McAlpine" and 37425 has also been named "Pride of the Valleys"/"Balchder y Cymoedd". This Class 37 loco was shot approaching Leicester station en route from Loughborough Brush to Salisbury T & R.S.M.D on May 11th 2016.
West Coast Railways Class 37 diesel locomotive 37685 "Loch Arkaig" at Crewe station being moved from Carnforth to Southall on 05/09/2016 hauled between a pair of Class 33 locomotives.
A Rail Operations Group Class 37 diesel locomotive 37800 in Europhoenix livery at Leicester (UK Rail Leasing yard, December 2016)
West Coast Railways Class 37 diesel locomotive 37696 "Loch Rannoch" in the workshops at Carnforth and operated by the West Coast Railways Company.
9708 (ex 9530) Driving Open Brake Standard leading Class 37 D6757 (also numbered as 37057) with a Network Rail Test train passing northeast through Leicester station (08/03/17)
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