Class 37 - BR Blue pre-TOPS - D6992 - DCC Sound FittedAlthough the last 75 or so EE Type 3s were delivered after the debut of the new British Rail 'corporate image' on Brush Type 4 D1733 in May 1964 all 309 locomotives were outshopped from Vulcan Foundary in BR green. Despite their relative youth, repaints into the new blue scheme were not uncommon before 1970 and a not insignificant number gained double arrows and Rail alphabet numbers on all four cabsides. D6992 was the highest numbered example, and

Early tapered

Windshield air vents: not fitted

his eponymous railway company has now acquired 11 Class 37s as they have slowly come up for sale by Direct Rail Services

EWS Maroon

Heavy Die-cast metal chassis

2c Ph2 SO (ex-FO) 4107 Black Roof

this loco spent its entire working life in South Wales before being withdrawn from Newport Pill shed in 1959

Now on hire to Colas Rail

brake cylinders

Walkway Style : Late

later receiving an experimental uprated 2

66167 is carrying the current vibrant house colours of owner DB