Rail Quest
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Morning all! Is anyone able to confirm if any 37s haven't been sold yet and, as such, are still with DRS? I haven't heard of 716 being purchased yet despite being on one of the sale lists
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DRS to sell heritage locomotives
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37419, 422 and 716 have been bought by HNRC
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Interesting. I wonder what HNRC will do with a heavyweight. Super-shunter I’d imagine.
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37716 is only really a refurb 37 ie traction alternator instead of generator, but with 15 tonnes of steel welded inside. Not sure whether it has had the Brush electrical and desk mods but it maybe a bit more standard than the ex EPS 37/6s and those tinkered with by Brush.
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Other than the HGR refurb that you mention, I don’t think Brush touched any of the /7 subclass. The cab desks on 706, 712, 716 (and probably 714 also) are generally in ”as built” condition, and all had/have Q-TRON OTMR fitted by EWS.
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Ahh cool thanks for confirming!
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And 37407 by Europhoenix and 37424/425 by Meteor Power (this company, presumably: https://www.meteorpower.com/)
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Thanks. I’m surprised that the four ”RVEL rebuild” locos have been dispersed to four different companies - it certainly will not make troubleshooting straightforward.
I thought there were only 2 RVEL rebuild locos (37407 and 37424), what were the other 2 please?
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423, 716 also both had some re-engineering done at the same time.
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Your welcome
It would be very interesting if any of these make a comeback to the RA5 restricted 3J51 RHTT this year.
I wonder if any of these locos would become present of Colas PLPR trains
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Interesting in that it is well over three years since they posted anything on there. They have had an 08 and a 37 for some time now with precious little sign of progress.
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This is interesting... I wonder what they will do with 37424 and 425
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if it comes to fruition, 424 will become one of the most heavily invested ex-BR locomotives…
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Yeah that would make sense... would we ever see them running on the main line again though???if it comes to fruition, 424 will become one of the most heavily invested ex-BR locomotives…
Thanks, wasn't aware of that, the pics I saw of 407 and 424 showed them virtually completely reskinned such was the level of work going on.
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It's a shame to see Bob heading off to be used as a contraption for an out of this world type experiment that will never take off (or at least I guess that is what Meteor Power will be doing) but good to see a few finding new homes