A follow up to Class 37 "Thrash", here's part 2 featuring up to thirty class 37s from the class 37/0, 37/4, 37/5, 37/6 and 37/7 subclasses. Check out part 1 @ • Class 37 Thrash
The best sounding locomotive EVER! And I even got to watch one that runaway downline and derail and topple over on its side! .. Diesel everywhere literally but no flames..It was righted up three days later .. will never forget..
You cannot beat the sounds these beasts make especially when you can hear them ten minutes before you actually see these well built 1960s locos that are still flying about 50 years later and still in service on the mainline 30 years after withdrawal! They are the best loco's ever built for route availability and power and are one of the biggest fleet of surviving locos ever built by English electric or by any other loco builders from the 1960s/70s I love the sound they kick out at power!!! Nice video of these claggy beasts 😀
Dear gawd....that noise!! I grew up close to the railway station at Kyle of Lochalsh and when I was wee they used class 37 locomotives, not like the pishy wee springer thingies of today. The noise and the smell was just epic and I wanted to be a train driver! A couple of miles down the track are gorgeous, sandy coves that as kids we used to spend days at, swimming out to the Islands and generally fannying about. We would walk along the railway line knowing we would hear the trains long before they were anywhere near us, we could just hop out of the way and once they'd gone we'd be on our way again. I love this video - it reminds me of proper train engines, dirty but gorgeous smelling diesel clouds and when you could go to Inverness in comfort rather than being bunched up into the crappy wee trains of today :)
The unmistakable chortle of the 37....now that is an engine.i hear one in the morning sometimes when i open the school gate at the top playing field.it puts a smile on my face knowing that they are still working.
Love the audio on this clip. The way the train zooms off under idle says to me, "Yeah, I could pull a shopping mall around the block if I wanted but it's Sunday and I'm just gonna stroll around for a bit then maybe have a nap later."
I spent some time in the highlands of Scotland in the 90s. Every morning I used to hear the sound of the 37s on the sleeper echoing around the mountains - magic
I’ve never forgotten the sound of these locomotives, class 37. I knew my morning train was going to arrive, as I could hear it before seeing it. Powerful monsters, love them.
The cement trains serving Blue Circle works, East gate, Weardale, late 80s. One minute tranquility, next, a cacophony of whirrs, growls and intermittent roars. Unforgettable.
Takes me back to watching these locos pass through Prestatyn as a kid in the 80s and 90s. Memories of me waving to the drivers and being frightening of the engine sound but not moving as I wanted the train driver to wave and most times they did. I love their look, their engine noise and the smell.
I love the sound of big diesel engines. Hold it steady at the right RPM and it will put me to sleep. In fact, if I were the richest man in the world, I would probably buy a large property, build a railroad loop on it, get the best sounding locomotive, hire a crew, build a custom sleeping car, and pay them to ride around the loop for eight hours while I sleep.
ALWAYS the best sounding locos! Our local station pilot was a real bashed out old 37 shed but she still ran. I lived 3 miles away but in the summer we could hear her shunting in the mornings!
As I young boy my mums work backed onto barking station east London and when I went there in the school holidays I could see the trains over the garden fence , I could tell when a 37 was coming through the station usually quite slow the noise was still deafening and as it got closer and closer i’d stay as long as I could until I’d run indoors from fear and excitement. I love them 37’s
I used to live on the western mainline a bit down from Reading, they'd frequently come through double headed with (I think) an oil train making an incredible racket. They would always set off all the car alarms in the station car park, it was like the cars were saluting these magnificent machines.
The sound is a Norton Dominator and a Supermarine Spitfire all rolled into one, you hear it and instantly have a longing for Fish n Chips, or Crumpets with Marmite and Cheddar a packet of Jammy Dodgers, or some Tunnocks caramel wafers and a pot of Tea. You couldn't make it any more British if Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise or The Two Ronnies, were driving it! 💚🇬🇧
Awesome and very well edited video mate - that's a mega like and fav from me of my fav diesels. Full marks to DRS for keeping them going and in great condition too! Little did I know when they began appearing at Polmadie and Eastfield MPDs Glasgow back in the 60s that they would still be going strong in 2013!! 50 years and counting - amazing locos and thanks for the upload. Cheers. Ken
Yes and oh that efficiency... two engines, both full throttle, tow one trailer... but the sound is epic... we only had Maybach Diesel engines in Germany... they sound nice... but the 37 is somewhat peculiar... and the clag anyway...
@@blitzbrain Diesel train = Fossil Fuel moved Nuclear Waste... See the irony there. If it had been a train of the electric variety that got its power from a nuclear power station, see where I'm going with this?
@@thepvporg It might… but where there is no cable… there ist no Electric engine… haha... this is the Problem with all Electric engines… in the end the good ol' Diesel or steam still runs on the tracks, when the nuclear plant did break in pieces.
I remember lying in bed and hearing double headed 37’s labouring up the slope at Annfield Plain with the iron ore trains to Consett in County Durham, a sweet sound...👍👍👍
Nice piece of footage captured....where the little boy held by his mum shouts to the driver,and the driver acknowledges with a wave a horn blast,and plenty of clagg. You don`t see these sort of things happen very often today...the `young uns` are too busy on their laptors
Remember seeing class 37s on Medway valley line(strood to paddock wood)on engineers trains.also the class 37 in this video ( 37254) is now a mainline locomotive or was.
What a noise, dont really have any similar sounding locos' here in America, imagine how it feels to just hoon a 120+ ton locamotive around?!? Great vid!
@@alanhutchins5916 true but I was never saying it was cutting edge just good engineering that was reliable compared to modern day or atleast some modern day British engineering
@@alanhutchins5916 yep tbf both France and Japan had their railways flattened by ww2 and needed to rebuild from ground up and as such were able to overhaul them
The Deltic has such a distinctive sound, and the Class 37 has such a distinct look; it's like a two-faced pig grunting constantly! Much different from the EMCs and such in North America. I need to study that engine more...
i worked on the replacment engine modifications some years ago in crewe loco works had some fires on them cutting out the old internal battery boxes must of been 25 years ago !!
So I have a question about these locomotives, why do they rev intermittently? As soon as they start to smoke the throttle cuts off for a second, is that the on board electronics preventing the air fuel mixture from getting too rich and choking the turbo? We have these retro fitted in most old Indian locomotives but the ones without electronic throttle restrictiors can be slammed straight from notch 3 to 8 and that creates huge clouds of black unburnt diesel which looks gorgeous (although I'd imagine Greenpeace wouldn't be too happy).
Often wheel slip causing power to be cut then very basic engine governor applying power to fast . Class 37 governor is fairly basic opens fuel racks rather fast no ramping of power like better governors . If you ever listen to cold 37's they ages to settle down ie really bad hunting ie revs up and down .Also driver can make them smoke when i have driven them soon as you pull for power you instantly hear roar of engine and lots smoke .Not much in way of electronics on most 37's apart from some of the rebuilt ones has electronic load regs but still clag the same though We use to double head them on fairly heavy train and had steep incline after speed restriction you should seen them powering up there . They had diverts going in and out at different times offl loading with slip all at different time on each loco .Did not work together very well lol
On the day of 37682 running solo, 37510 which had been running with it failed with some sort of wheelset problem, and was taken off the train at Tonbridge when it was enroute to Dungeness.
Must be getting old my memories are of the milk, boat, paper,and mail trains comming down the river Medway into Rochester overnight. The sound of the steam whistle would wake you up, if the fire box door was open glowing in the dark bonus. The smell of coal smoke just does not compare to diesel, not that either were good for one's health. Childhood memories of the coal man in his leather coat, drayman bringing barrels of real beer to the pub, the smell of the barrels and beer awesome. The milkman delivering on his horse and cart, he would walk up the street with two hand crates of 8 bottles, plonking the full bottles down and picking up the empties. As he moved up the street he would give his horse a whistle and the beatifull animal would move up to him as knew exactly how far to go. Rag and bone man, the pig bin man picking up the kitchen waste from all the vegetables, gas light man with his small red ladder to set the gas switch /mantel and clock. Just memories for a few people now, looking back the good old days were just that. One other memory in the winter get the milk in before the sparrows peck the tops open for the cream!!!!!!
What a bloody delicious racket! I want one - although Christ knows where I would keep it! I know - I'd set it up as a static display in my garden, then crank it up on quiet Sunday mornings.. much to the delight of my neighbours! I'm sure they wouldn't mind when I told them it was a classic :-))
Me too! Would love a 37 in the back garden just to gawp at. Have to be a blue baby, I think, cos I love the contrast with the big yellow snoot. And those sad eye windows - OMG, going into overload here just thinking about it. Where can I get one??????
Okay, I've just seen nuclear flasks going through Bangor N.W., but there is no railway to Wylfa (the power station on Anglesey). Any ideas? Is there some method I'm not aware of?
Yup, I'm pretty sure they are nuclear waste flasks! There's a good video up on youtube of them crashing a Class 46 into one them to demonstrate how strong they are.
I was in Ravenglass and saw many a train with the flasks with two engines assuming the same, the sound and the power you could feel as they traveled past was an experience !!!!
Are these so loud and dirty because they are fundamentally underpowered? They seem to struggle to get going and produce steam engine quantities of smoke. Is it mainly because the prime movers are cold at startup?
