• Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Class 37 liveries?

Status
Not open for further replies.

Robinson102

Member
Joined
16 Mar 2015
Messages
103
Hi all,

Just wondering, does anyone know of a list of class 37 liveries, available online?

Or even if there's any books available, that might have a list?

Thanks, Mark
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
As I am attempting to find photos of each livery, but this is likely to be difficult if it's an unknown list - hence my trying to assemble one!
 
Last edited:
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

SpacePhoenix

Established Member
Joined
18 Mar 2014
Messages
5,492
Hi all,

Just wondering, does anyone know of a list of class 37 liveries, available online?

Or even if there's any books available, that might have a list?

Thanks, Mark
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
As I am attempting to find photos of each livery, but this is likely to be difficult if it's an unknown list - hence my trying to assemble one!

http://www.c37lg.co.uk/gallery.aspx

Not been through all the pages but i would imagine the gallery would cover a good chunk of all liveries that the 37s have ever had
 

sprinterguy

Established Member
Joined
4 Mar 2010
Messages
11,065
Location
Macclesfield
The class 37 loco group website is usually a good source for this sort of thing, but I don't think that even they maintain such a list (link included as an example, though):
http://www.c37lg.co.uk/history.aspx

It can get very complicated if you start to consider all the different permutations of BR blue and the large logo liveries (White stripes, yellow cab sides, large/small BR double arrows, etc).

I'm not aware of such a list anywhere else, either, but here is what I think have been the main livery variants:

BR Green, lion and wheel emblem
BR Green, double arrow logo
BR Blue, double arrow logo
BR Large Logo (Applied to all the 37/4s as they underwent conversion, also carried by a number of 37/0s and 37/3s)
BR Railfreight "large logo" Grey/yellow
BR Railfreight "red stripe" Grey yellow
BR Mainline (Essentially unbranded Intercity "swallow" livery)
Trainload Freight - General (Red and yellow rectangles - Carried only by 37104, 673 and also 403 for one night only)
Trainload Freight - Railfreight Distribution (Red rhombus' on yellow background)
Trainload Coal (Black diamonds on yellow background)
Trainload Construction (Blue and yellow squares)
Trainload Petroleum (Blue and yellow waves)
Trainload Metals (Blue and yellow chevrons)
BR Unbranded trainload freight triple grey
BR Civil Engineers "Dutch" (Grey/yellow)
BR Departmental (All over dark grey)
BR Regional Railways
BR Intercity Swallow (As applied to 37152/221/251/505/510/683/685 for working the Inverness and Aberdeen sleepers with generator vans between 1992 and 1994, since carried by 37518 in preservation)
BR Trainload Freight - Mainline "rolling wheels" branding in blue
Mainline Freight (Aircraft blue with silver decals)
Loadhaul (Black/orange)
Transrail
European Passenger Services (Trainload freight triple grey with the Channel tunnel "polo mint" metal segments)

European Passenger Services - Blue DRS branding (As applied to six class 37/6s at the end of the nineties)
English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (Red/gold)
Royal Scotsman maroon (Different permutations - 37428 initially with large yellow numbers, 37401 and 416 later with small numbers)
Direct Rail Services
GIF (Spain) Light and dark blue
Harry Needle Railway Company Light grey/orange (Worn by 37087/194)
BR Two-tone green (As worn by classes 24, 25 and 47. Only carried by 37197 while owned by Ian Riley)
West Coast Railway Company Maroon
DRS "Compass"
Network Rail Yellow
DB Schenker Red
Colas Rail Orange/Yellow/Black
Europhoenix (Grey, blue and red)
DRS "Swirly compass" (As applied to the new class 68s)

That's everything I can think of, there might well be others that I have missed! Class 37s have been painted in just about everything going, being such a versatile design.

There have also been a number of permutations and one-offs in addition to the mostly standard schemes listed above:

37501 received a British Steel blue livery in the eighties.
37116 "Sister Dora" carried BR blue livery with the Transrail "Big T" logo during the mid to late nineties.
A few locomotives, such as 37350, 403 and 411 have also been returned to BR Green livery at various times from the nineties onwards, to varying levels of authenticity.
Not forgetting the time that 37093 was dressed up in a predominantly white "Police" livery for an IC125 advert in the early eighties!
 
Last edited:

DarloRich

Veteran Member
Joined
12 Oct 2010
Messages
29,297
Location
Fenny Stratford
Were a few Thornaby 37's painted some form of British Steel blue livery?

Do we consider class 97's to be 37's? ;)
 

sprinterguy

Established Member
Joined
4 Mar 2010
Messages
11,065
Location
Macclesfield
Were a few Thornaby 37's painted some form of British Steel blue livery?

Do we consider class 97's to be 37's? ;)
As noted in my post, 37501 (just the one) carried British Steel blue livery. I should hope that we count the 97s as 37s ;) - The renumbering seems even more arbitrary than many of BRs' more obscure choices, for the sake of the ERTMS equipment that is fitted to them (Though note that there actually is a Network Rail yellow 37 numbered as such - 37198 at the GCR).
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top