BR Class 37 - BR Blue - 37088 - DCC Sound

BR Class 37 - BR Blue - 37088 - DCC Sound37088 (ex D6788) BR Blue Ticking off two big boxes on many customer wishlists is 37088 which responds to the calls for more Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns constructed locomotives and for a run of the mill 1970 80s BR blue split headcode machine. Originally completed at Darlington in January 1963 as D6788, the Type 3 was first allocated to Gateshead but would also call Hull Dairycotes, Tinsley and York home before the end of the same decade. Renumbered

A Twin Pack of CIE / Irish Rail 42’ Flat Container wagons

it being the only member of the class to miss out on gaining its original allocated identity

2518 Inner

It spent many years in storage at the back of Toton depot before being dispatched to Ron Hull's scrapyard

Cutdown HYA -  Blue/Black with GB Railfreight branding  (Pack 1)

when rail traffic at the site ceased

Numerous individual differences between wagon types* Three body styles: as built

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Steam heat was not a requirement for the engineering trains so this was removed

The pulpwood was unloaded from the ships berthed at the deep water jetty on the Thames and from there

D1479 pattern

HDA and CDA versions* Multiple bufferbeam brake pipe configurations* Three different wheel variants: bolted disc brake