Class 37 Power
 Having
been a familiar sight across much of Britains rail network for four decades, the Class 37s are now in rapid decline. This
programme features their operations during one of their most interesting
periods - the five
years between 1987 and 1992. Margams Area Engineer explains the
technical variations of the fleet before taking us on a nationwide tour
of the British Isles to view the class hard at work. No fewer than 110 different members of the class -
including all the sub-class variations - are featured at work on a
superb variety of duties, most of which are now in the dim and distant
past.
Remember these? . . . . .
FREIGHT:
Hunterston-Ravenscraig triple-headers
Redmire limestone
Highland Speedlinks
Felixstowe Freightliners
Cornish China Clay
Peak Forest Stone
Middleton Towers Sand
Speedlink Coal
Port Talbot-Llanwern Iron Ore
Ripple Lane Petroleum
Lackenby Tubeliners
Welsh valley coal.
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PASSENGER:
Cardiff-Weymouth
Cardiff-Liverpool & Manchester
North West
Club Trains
Shrewsbury-Aberystwyth
Inverness-Kyle, Thurso
& Aberdeen
The luxury "Queen of Scots Pullman"
37141 & failed
Class 50 on a Waterloo-
Exeter service.
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SPECIALS:
Ely-Cambridge triple-header
Large-Logo 37116 on a Ludgershall passenger shuttle
Green-livened 37350 on the "Coalville Cobbler"
"The Barry Bucketeer"
"Beast & Bicycle"
"Valiant Thunderer"
"The Brentford Bard".
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CELEBRITIES:
37216 in blue & green liveries
BSC Blue 37501
Pioneer
37350 after its first
re-paint back into green.
"This is a superb video and is a must on the cassette shelf of
all Class 37 enthusiasts."
THE GROWLER
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Programme Fact File
Narrator: Andrew Skinner - Area Manager - Margam
First Published: 1992
Areas Featured: From all over the UK.
Class Featured: 37.
Availability: Now
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Other Locomaster Profiles Programmes featuring Class 37 motive
power:
Capital Syphons, Silver
Bullet Syphons, Unplugged, Heavy
Metal, Double O, Power Hour,
The Long Short Drag and the Traction
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