Love these growlers I could hear them at around 2am on a cold wet windy night I could hear there engines from 2 miles away there was always tractor action going through Stalybridge Station in the early 1980/90s they're true brutes and beasts and the best loco's ever built in the swinging 1960s that's why 100 still survive in preservation + on the mainline! Good video 🥰😍🤩
Drove many class 37s when I was a fireman working out of eastfield traction depot springburn Glasgow 1974 many years later my oldest brother drove the same 37s that I drove as DRS the company he was a driver with bought and refurbished the same class 37s and class 20s that came from eastfield depot
Think the 37s look great in the DRS, so much so I bought the Bachmann concrete bob! Had her out in the garden if you are interested in having a look! All the best and thanks for sharing! Paul
Same here 1980-84. Only way to make up a wage was to work O/T + Sundays but for all that is was varied and interesting. Traction was good too, 40's, 45's, 46's, 47's plus the odd Deltic now and then (boiler jobs). Enjoyed it all. Left the railway in '84 for much better paid work and every weekend off! But still miss the old boys and banter!
the Class 37 is like the British version of the early EMD GP and SD locomotives. They all are rather old, and some are still in service! Nice video! especially the triple headers!
It has been a dream of mine to go on a long distance train journey...here in South Africa is the Blue Train...Rovo's Rail...both very expensive...bit there is a cheaper one...Shosholoza Meijl (Transkaroo)...perhaps someday soon...
Dean Mcdonald they are nuclear flasks with spent uranium from sellafield my brother used to be a driver with DRS he moved those flasks on the nightshift
Craziness. It's almost as if they have some kind of gigantic lead-lined boxes that block radiation! And some kind of mechanism by which the locomotive can control the train brakes! Some of this technology is indistinguishable from magic, I tell you.
No. The radiation being transported has deteriorated to a safe level of 5084 rels per minute which means only the wagons glow now. No real need for a tail lamp either because you can see the last wagon at night by its greenish glow!
Alot of double heading on flasks, may be due to what is in the Flask, you wouldnt want that train failing in a section Lol. 2x37s 2x flasks= Very Heavy Lol. Triple headers didnt seem to be that heavy, maybe it was originally a double, but one failed, 3rd being rescue engine ?? Who cares, they look and sound well. Keep up the good work.
The two nuclear flask wagons only weigh around 200 tons in total but they use two 37s just in case one breaks down, don’t want nuclear waste sitting on a line.....
