English Electric Type 3 Class 37 Co-Co diesel locomotive 37025 was released from English Electric Vulcan Foundry - Works Number EE/VF2888/D604 on 31 August 1961 as D6725. Having spent the first 20 years of operation in British Rail's Eastern Region, 37025 moved north to Scotland on 7 June 1981 and would spend the next 14 years flitting between Eastfield, Inverness and Motherwell depots. During this time it became the first locomotive to carry the BR Large Logo livery and, later, the Departmental Grey livery. It was also named 'Inverness TMD' in March 1994 having been repainted into BR Large Logo livery from Civil Engineers 'Dutch' livery. In 1995, 37025 moved south for the last three years of its working career. It was withdrawn in 1998 having famously broken down at Stockport.
Purchased in 2000 by the Scottish Thirty-Seven Group, 37025 “Inverness TMD” made a successful return to traffic in September 2007 following an extensive restoration at the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway. In April 2011, 37025 was once again withdrawn from traffic in order to prepare the locomotive for work on the British Rail Network.
Some more class 37 history :-
Class 37s were first allocated to Scottish Region depots in 1966 and for the next 14 years were mostly used on freight trains in the Central belt. However, in the early 1970s, class 37s were occasionally used as substitutes for class 27s on the Edinburgh - Glasgow Push-pull service; air brake fitted locomotives being in short supply. During the early 1980s steam heat fitted examples replaced class 27s and class 26s on passenger trains on the West Highland and Far North Lines.
As part of the general refurbishment program in the mid 1980s, thirty-one class members were additionally equipped with Electric Train Heating (ETH) equipment and renumbered in the 37/4 sub-class. This facilitated the end of steam heating, and brought to an end the use of ETHELs on the Fort William sleeper.
The 37s were largely replaced on the West Highland and Far North Lines by class 156 DMUs in 1989, but continued to see use on Summer services into the mid 1990s, when they also featured on Inverness - Edinburgh / Aberdeen routes. From 1992 to 1995 pairs of class 37s (with a generator coach for ETH) were used on the Intercity Sleeper trains north of Edinburgh to Inverness and Aberdeen.
Please check out this excellent 37025 restoration Gallery by David Horne here:-realrail.smugm...
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