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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL CO 0175-Edit

 

 

The photographs in this collection are from the To The West section of Peter Collins' Railwayman's View Book Volume One - BR Western Region.

LPPC DSL CO 0175-Edit Nicely turned out in the latest rail-blue livery, English Electric Type 3 Class 37 strangely has had its original number – 6997 – reapplied instead of a new TOPS number. There were many cases of non-standard finishes on many different types of locomotives from all of the works on BR. Nice to know the corporate accountants’ tentacles didn’t get everywhere. In the background is a Hymek on jacks, probably having parts removed as a cannibalisation process to keep the dwindling number of these locos still surviving in action. The Class 37 became 37297 in the TOPS renumbering scheme and was later re-built as 37420 in the latter half of 1985 as steam heated coaching stock was eradicated from the BR network. The locomotive survived until 2008 before being cut up. Keywords: BR, Western, Swindon Works, Class 37, 6997, 37297, 37420, 1971
LPPC DSL CO 0175-Edit Nicely turned out in the latest rail-blue livery, English Electric Type 3 Class 37 strangely has had its original number – 6997 – reapplied instead of a new TOPS number. There were many cases of non-standard finishes on many different types of locomotives from all of the works on BR. Nice to know the corporate accountants’ tentacles didn’t get everywhere. In the background is a Hymek on jacks, probably having parts removed as a cannibalisation process to keep the dwindling number of these locos still surviving in action. The Class 37 became 37297 in the TOPS renumbering scheme and was later re-built as 37420 in the latter half of 1985 as steam heated coaching stock was eradicated from the BR network. The locomotive survived until 2008 before being cut up. Keywords: BR, Western, Swindon Works, Class 37, 6997, 37297, 37420, 1971
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Nicely turned out in the latest rail-blue livery, English Electric

Type 3 Class 37 strangely has had its original number – 6997 – reapplied instead of a new TOPS number. There were many cases of non-standard finishes on many different types of locomotives from all of the works on BR. Nice to know the corporate accountants’ tentacles didn’t get everywhere. In the background is a Hymek on jacks, probably having parts removed as a cannibalisation process to keep the dwindling number of these locos still surviving in action. The Class 37 became 37297 in the TOPS renumbering scheme and was later re-built as 37420 in the latter half of 1985 as steam heated coaching stock was eradicated from the BR network. The locomotive survived until 2008 before being cut up.