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Can anyone ID this working on google maps?

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JKF

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My train (and map) obsessed son spotted this class 37 towing what looks like Mk3 DVTs and coaches near Willesden Junction on Google Maps. Given the relatively unusual nature of this move, would anyone be able to ID the date/working, so I could then try and find him a YouTube video of it somewhere on the journey? I suspect the last DVT might just be repeated when consecutive images of a moving train have been stitched together.


The aerial image has a copyright date of 2024, but no idea if that is the actual date of the shot.

Any clues appreciated, I’ve been searching myself for DVT moves but drawn a blank so far matching to this formation.
 
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Thanks @Otis, that looks like a very likely match from the formation. I suspected it might be older than 2024 because it looked like ex-GA stock, and I know that went out of use a few years ago.
 

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Funnily enough if you do street view there, there’s a 66 on a stone train!
 

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Thanks @Otis, that looks like a very likely match from the formation. I suspected it might be older than 2024 because it looked like ex-GA stock, and I know that went out of use a few years ago.
The video is from 14/5/2020, so that's probably about right, if you look to the east you can see that OOC has been cleared, but no major HS2 work has started, so that suggests the image it's from a good few years back.
 

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If you use Google Earth desktop and scroll through the timeline function it lists that aerial image as April 2020. This fits in the timeframe for the video above.
 
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