I have a colleague at work ( I’m HGV driver ) hello if your reading Who owns a diesel electric loco just like this one, back in the 90’s British rail where selling off some old rolling stock & he bought one for just 25,000, scrap value. After transporting it via HGV to a private railway line, he & a group of experts rebuild it & now it’s back out working that he hires out. A company just offered him 4,000,000 for it. It’s great being an HGV driver because everyone thinks we’re losers but we’re not!! The turbo barely fits on a U.K. pallet, it’s massive & the pistons are the size of a basket ball all 16 of them. It weighs 108 tonnes
I worked on the Sulzer engines all through the1970s when I was working in Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness.I used to hear them running in the test bed next to the machine shop I was working in at the time.Some of these diesel locos are sometimes still used on the coastal line between Barrow and Carlisle.I remember going to see one of the first ones that had been built on display at Barrow station in the late 1950,s.Little did I know that I would be working on the same engine many years later.I know we made thousands of spare parts right up until 1981. Mike Docherty.
The fire breathing dragon emerges from its cave...... The 37 has such a distinctive sound there's no other engine you can hear and identify before you see it. These were the main engines that ran near my grandads house when I was a boy and I have had such an affection for them ever since.
We were in a Sheffield tunnel we shouldnt have been in years back, 2 of these came through wiith oil tanks pulling hard, i thought my head was going to explode !!!!
Reminds me of the bus depot first thing on a winter’s morning in the 70s after the fleet had been started up, we had to walk through the fog to get to the workshop to clock in. Sometimes you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. Someone phoned the fire brigade one morning, with all the smoke billowing out of the doors they thought the depot was on fire.
Wow. I work for a ~100 bus school district, we have diesel buses pre- and post- diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) requirement and we just started buying gasoline buses. This is my 3rd year working thru the Minnesota winter and I've definitely felt 'gassed' on those cold mornings but hardly any of it is visible. Blows me away how much emissions standards have done. Not to imply it was remotely acceptable to delay switching everything to a nuclear electric grid 60 years ago instead of building coal plants like it was going out of style...
Commenting on my partner’s RUclips account. I was a bus mechanic based at West Ham bus garage back in the 70’s. You are 100% right. Around about 5.30 am we would get all the buses started in the winter months ready to go out on service. We’re talking way before emission controls, old R.T’s, Routemasters, etc. Around the depot’s walls would be red buckets marked up as ‘Sand’, (in case of fire) and similar red buckets marked up as ‘vomit’. I kid you not. That gives you an idea of how bad it was. Yet the doctor still blames my later life chest problems purely down to smoking 😅.
Now thats what I call a Growler! - love the things, used to be woken up by them in South Wales Growling along (often double headed) hauling the longest coal train you could ever see, was actually a comforting regularity in my life that was pretty chaotic when young.
I used to work in Manchester Victoria East Junction signal box, and had them parked up right under the large windows, It was a race to close the windows when they started them up especially in hot weather.
Excellent video! Hats off to the workers who got this engine back on the rails. When people see a train pass few have an appreciation for the level of effort and skill required behind the scenes to keep to keep these running. Thank you for posting!
@C Nosprandt, yea there is so much involved in maintaining rails and the machines that run on them. We see these multi-ton machines run on rails which appear to be solid steel that won't bend or break BUT it was pretty stunning to see that after the fasteners and everything are removed & you lift the rail with a machine, the rail just waves about like a snake.
This is the best looking train ever. It brings back so many child hood memories as we used to have 2 coal mines about 7 miles apart closer if you walked and these locos were used to move coal from silverdale colliery over to Holditch colliery Newcastle under Lyme
Ayup me duck! I remember sometimes my mum's car getting stopped at the Barlaston level crossing and seeing usually one of these pulling what seemed like miles of coal trucks to the storage fields for Meaford Power Station B!
Adding large, high volume cfm exhaust fans at both ends of the shed, one end sucking air in & the other pushing air out, would greatly if not completely reduce the exhaust smoke issue. Just an observation.
Oh my. Why would you even think of starting it inside? Pull the thing outdoors and THEN start it. Literally everything in that shed is going to have a layer of Unburned oil on it…
One would have thought they would have took it outside the shed with a shunting loco to start rather than fill up the shed with all that smoke? Not productive to employee health concerns and coating the shed in smut and soot. 37403 reminds me of an ALCO start up, renown for smoke! I like the little white Scottie dog on the side. Nice clip.
At 1:00 I actually thought that man was closing the door to enhance the fumes, then at 3:34 it looks like the class 37 is appearing on stars in their eyes!
@@ednorton47 Because the smoke trapped inside will never enter the atmosphere? 🤣 (especially when they open up all the doors and windows) You eco-boys really lack some fundamental reasoning skills.
@@JohnHughes2002 Apologies, but next time, perhaps include a smilie at the end? There are so many certified nutcases with the IQ of a broomstick out there, that there's no way to tell who's joking and who's dead serious. 😉
Not a massive train guy but this lives on my doorstep love seeing it run up the track . On a clear day you can hear it sitting tiking over in the yard 😊
Great wee clip and the 37 sounds very good, we’ll done to all involved in the refurb!! Can’t wait to see/hear her on 29th if it’s still on!! Thanks. Ken
That 37 coming out of the shed through the smoke would have been a crackin advert for the engine! Love the old 37s such a powerful thing,and a cold start is always a good watch,almost like coming back from the dead every time seemjng happy to be alive again! Ya cant keep a good diesel down!
Two suggestions: 1st Close all the door and workers inside, then make a bet who will last longer. One who leaves 1st pays for all rounds in bar. One that leaves last has next Friday free... 2nd Did any of you figured out the loco can be pulled out and cranked outside? Yes, that would ruin point 1...
Great to see a Scottie, at Derby RTC on 1980's I was involved in fitting flange lubrication to the Scotties Nice to see double heading on test, at Derby loco the heavy general repairs were double headed Derby to Leicester to line prove before entering service.
I didn't know that about that breed of dog, I just thought both colours were just westies. Thanks for the enlightenment . Have a goodun -bud the painter-
I can still hear these double heading the iron ore trains up the 1 in 35 stretch at Annfield Plain in County Durham on the Consett branch, full bore all the way, sweet music...
Ah, nothing like a graceful emergence from its own smoke cloud. Who needs a fog machine? Seriously though, 37 my favorite British locomotive. Wonderful work and thanks for keeping her alive. (Also hello to the adorable little Sulzer too!)
FAB! So good to see 37 403 running. @1:25 “we’re gonna need a bigger fan….” So glad no Baby Sulzers were harmed. They sound FAB too! Cheers Ross, building a layout at East Coast DCC
I agree. What a workhorse. They even sold some to the French and possibly Hungary after the BR ballsup/breakup. I had a train set as a kid and it was a 37. Many, many moons ago.
If that’s an old eastfield traction depot springburn Glasgow 37 I probably drove it up the west highland line to Oban many times when I was a fireman 1974 in the winter they were never shut down the plume of smoke and fumes that hung over the depot was unbelievable best engine ever my uncle Jim Matthew was a mainline driver at eastfield spent many great shifts wit him as my driver on the ghost train to Oban he would let me drive up and back down best time of my life
great work lads, the euphoria of it all coming together after all the hard work, mixed with the bottom clenching hope that its all going to hold together !!, love it
Just love the sound, but choking on the smoke . I'm glad that there are engineers to fettle these machines for all to remember and not lost to the scrapyard.😁Thanks for the video. Bye the way I think a lot of the rails need replacing unless it's my eyes !!!!
hi, great video, the 37 is sounding really good, glad its back on track,well done to the engineers who gave the engine a makeover, Have they still got the hybrid DVT with a JCB engine in it ? a really interesting machine.
Glad no sulzers were harmed in the filming of this film. As a southern man I'd hate to see the baby sister of a crompton hurt in any way !! . Joking aside , great video. Thanks for the memory . -bud the painter-
My Scammell Crusader with a Rolls Royce 305 Eagle engine used to smoke like that on a cold start... They all used to do it...👍👍...great video...I love these old diesel's they sound fantastic...
Amazing machines, used to watch go past at local station as a kid, stood on bridge as they passed under with what seemed an unlimited amount if coal wagons on tow back in the 80s
Thirty years ago my local diesel sheds were next to the river, about a mile upstream from where I lived. If it had been a still, cold night the cold layer from the moor would trap the smoke from the 125s doing their morning run-up at low level. My bedroom was on the top floor of my house where the air was OK, but when I descended to the ground floor I would gag on the diesel fumes.
Please excuse my ignorance as I'm not a locomotive engineer but a former automotive mechanic, but if this is the first start for a very long time, do you not check around to make sure it's not puking oil/coolant/fuel? And if that is part of the start up process would it not be prudent to pull it out side with another loco, and start up or there, to save the engineer's lungs? 😂
Everyday occurrence at Immingham 37, 31,s then we got some smoky 20's we use to hit start button then make a hasty retreat , we did have roof fans though . Reckon we had 37403 in many years ago ,had some heavy repairs from Eng room fire it actually melted some air manifold sections
One of the best 37 videos - very enjoyable with action and awesome shots of this powerful beast. Although it did sound like it was being disturbed from a nice long rest. Back in the day, did cold starts take so long with so much groaning and smoke?
Quite true!I remember Laira sheds Plymouth in late sixties, and early seventies when class 52s were left running , certainly overnight, for days at a time.
@@123LooKey I can tell you without a doubt when I was a fireman out of eastfield traction depot springburn Glasgow 1974 all the engines were left running during the winter as they would not start again on there own if an engine shut down it had to be taken into the sheds and the fitters would get it running class 37 27 20 were all the same
@@iainf they were all left running during winter nights as you could not get them to start I was a fireman at eastfield traction depot Glasgow 1974 onwards
@@BONESS27001 I look after my mother's westie. Such a loyal little dog.. Keep up the good work and keep preserving those great trains. Regards from Ireland
Hah should bottle that as 'Scotch Mist, Diesel flavour 37'.. Hope the new shed architect has incorporated some d-mn big extraction fans or are they on Santa's list?.!!! ☺
I have a colleague at work ( I’m HGV driver ) hello if your reading
Who owns a diesel electric loco just like this one, back in the 90’s British rail where selling off some old rolling stock & he bought one for just 25,000, scrap value.
After transporting it via HGV to a private railway line, he & a group of experts rebuild it & now it’s back out working that he hires out.
A company just offered him 4,000,000 for it.
It’s great being an HGV driver because everyone thinks we’re losers but we’re not!!
The turbo barely fits on a U.K. pallet, it’s massive & the pistons are the size of a basket ball all 16 of them. It weighs 108 tonnes
These locos are money pits.
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What would happen if he took the 4M, would he have to share it with the team that rebuilt it?
Saying 16, are you on about a class 50 or class 40?
Literally nobody thinks hgv drivers are losers! Legends maybe
@@stevemumbling7720suppose he would buy them a couple of pints. Lol
Let me guess: No smoking in the shed, right?!?
I worked on the Sulzer engines all through the1970s when I was working in Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness.I used to hear them running in the test bed next to the machine shop I was working in at the time.Some of these diesel locos are sometimes still used on the coastal line between Barrow and Carlisle.I remember going to see one of the first ones that had been built on display at Barrow station in the late 1950,s.Little did I know that I would be working on the same engine many years later.I know we made thousands of spare parts right up until 1981.
Mike Docherty.
Not a Sulzer but an English Electric
DRS used to use the 37’s on the nuclear flask train from Sellafield but I believe they’ve sold them off now and use the fairly new class 68’s instead.
The fire breathing dragon emerges from its cave......
The 37 has such a distinctive sound there's no other engine you can hear and identify before you see it.
These were the main engines that ran near my grandads house when I was a boy and I have had such an affection for them ever since.
We were in a Sheffield tunnel we shouldnt have been in years back, 2 of these came through wiith oil tanks pulling hard, i thought my head was going to explode !!!!
31 sounds the same.
Nonsense, was I was a kid we could identify a few, especially the deltics, totally unique sound
Reminds me of the bus depot first thing on a winter’s morning in the 70s after the fleet had been started up, we had to walk through the fog to get to the workshop to clock in. Sometimes you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. Someone phoned the fire brigade one morning, with all the smoke billowing out of the doors they thought the depot was on fire.
I worked as a bus driver and can confirm a cold morning starting the buses would look like that, I shouder to think what toxins I breathed in
Wow. I work for a ~100 bus school district, we have diesel buses pre- and post- diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) requirement and we just started buying gasoline buses.
This is my 3rd year working thru the Minnesota winter and I've definitely felt 'gassed' on those cold mornings but hardly any of it is visible. Blows me away how much emissions standards have done.
Not to imply it was remotely acceptable to delay switching everything to a nuclear electric grid 60 years ago instead of building coal plants like it was going out of style...
Experienced the same in the mid 80's when I worked for Tyne and wear PTE at Byker depot Newcastle , used to get gased every day in the workshops .
Commenting on my partner’s RUclips account. I was a bus mechanic based at West Ham bus garage back in the 70’s. You are 100% right. Around about 5.30 am we would get all the buses started in the winter months ready to go out on service. We’re talking way before emission controls, old R.T’s, Routemasters, etc. Around the depot’s walls would be red buckets marked up as ‘Sand’, (in case of fire) and similar red buckets marked up as ‘vomit’. I kid you not. That gives you an idea of how bad it was. Yet the doctor still blames my later life chest problems purely down to smoking 😅.
Wouldn't it have made more sense... to tow it outside with the 08 shunter before firing up the engines !
Just what I was thinking! Apart from the health/safety risk the engine was pulling the smoke into its own intake compounding the issue.
☁someone would then have to carry the box of starter fluid back in the shop💨
no, hotboxing the workshop is part of the fun.
see my comment....:-D.....we're always more lnowledable "afterwards".....
My thoughts, exactly.
Now thats what I call a Growler! - love the things, used to be woken up by them in South Wales Growling along (often double headed) hauling the longest coal train you could ever see, was actually a comforting regularity in my life that was pretty chaotic when young.
The beauty of a massive Diesel loco crawling out of a smoke filled shed. Brings tears to my eyes
No shortage of tears from those in the shed, too. Something to do with the smoke?
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Brought tears to the eyes of the guys in the shed, too.
I used to work in Manchester Victoria East Junction signal box, and had them parked up right under the large windows,
It was a race to close the windows when they started them up especially in hot weather.
Excellent video! Hats off to the workers who got this engine back on the rails. When people see a train pass few have an appreciation for the level of effort and skill required behind the scenes to keep to keep these running. Thank you for posting!
Thanks for your comments.
@C Nosprandt, yea there is so much involved in maintaining rails and the machines that run on them. We see these multi-ton machines run on rails which appear to be solid steel that won't bend or break BUT it was pretty stunning to see that after the fasteners and everything are removed & you lift the rail with a machine, the rail just waves about like a snake.
This is the best looking train ever. It brings back so many child hood memories as we used to have 2 coal mines about 7 miles apart closer if you walked and these locos were used to move coal from silverdale colliery over to Holditch colliery Newcastle under Lyme
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Ayup me duck! I remember sometimes my mum's car getting stopped at the Barlaston level crossing and seeing usually one of these pulling what seemed like miles of coal trucks to the storage fields for Meaford Power Station B!
I never thought I would see a steam loco as the clean air option.
Absolutely love the deep hot tempered roar of the engine. Magnificent .
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Adding large, high volume cfm exhaust fans at both ends of the shed, one end sucking air in & the other pushing air out, would greatly if not completely reduce the exhaust smoke issue. Just an observation.
Or, just drag it outside. But running it indoors like that is just goofy.
Oh my. Why would you even think of starting it inside? Pull the thing outdoors and THEN start it. Literally everything in that shed is going to have a layer of Unburned oil on it…
Oh shut up and enjoy
@@billb7876 Really ?? How mature of you !
You have bigger things to worry about!!! Trust me!!
I can remember being at Salisbury train station when one class 37 did a tour of honor before being retired. Brings back childhood memories...
Bescot TMD 1987, in the shed as an apprentice running 4 x 31s! i can still smell and taste that EE exhaust today!
One would have thought they would have took it outside the shed with a shunting loco to start rather than fill up the shed with all that smoke? Not productive to employee health concerns and coating the shed in smut and soot. 37403 reminds me of an ALCO start up, renown for smoke! I like the little white Scottie dog on the side. Nice clip.
That would require a brain and an ounce of for sight .
Far too high a price
Nah, Engineers aren't snowflakes, they love that stuff.
@@lawrenceholden5716 Brainless remark.
It has to do with vermin control. Mice, rats, Englishman, they can't exist in that kind of atmosphere.
@@willdsm08 yep...and a happy new year from germany too....:-D
Wow, it sounds so quiet and smooth - and powerful.
Thanks
Yep, that’s exactly how I was expecting that workshop to look after it started 😂😂😂
I love seeing these start up and running👍
Well done for making such a lovely job of this. The sound is superb
Thanks.
At 1:00 I actually thought that man was closing the door to enhance the fumes, then at 3:34 it looks like the class 37 is appearing on stars in their eyes!
trains of the British Empire, what a beautiful sight and sound.
Thanks very much for your comment.
Class 37s were built a few decades after the end of the British Empire.
@ the British Imperial Empire ended in 1997 Queen Elizabeth II was the last monarch of the empire. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
@@kookaburrakookaburra Then you should correct your original comment slotting the word ‘Imperial’ between the words British and Empire.
@@FART-REPELLENT no because it was built during the time of the British Imperial Empire. Remember, you can’t change history.
Love how it sounds like a bag of bolts jangling around until it settles into the familiar rhythm.
Wow, that's an impressive amount of smoke. Just a silly idea, but wouldn't it be a lot easier to tow it outside and start it up there?
They are trying not to pollute the atmosphere.
@@ednorton47 Because the smoke trapped inside will never enter the atmosphere? 🤣 (especially when they open up all the doors and windows) You eco-boys really lack some fundamental reasoning skills.
@@roguewave1060 it was a joke!
@@JohnHughes2002 Apologies, but next time, perhaps include a smilie at the end? There are so many certified nutcases with the IQ of a broomstick out there, that there's no way to tell who's joking and who's dead serious. 😉
Global warming at its best
Love the sound of these engines pure diesel power
What a machine! One of my favourite locomotives ❤️
Awful!!
Loud and dirty scrap!!
A 37???
@@chrisp4170it's a powerhouse of a machine
Not a massive train guy but this lives on my doorstep love seeing it run up the track . On a clear day you can hear it sitting tiking over in the yard 😊
Fantastic! One of my fav engines! I need to visit this railway.
Nice to see the old smoker still going with fresh parts.
It’s got some pep after the refit.
Great wee clip and the 37 sounds very good, we’ll done to all involved in the refurb!! Can’t wait to see/hear her on 29th if it’s still on!! Thanks. Ken
Its still on.
That 37 coming out of the shed through the smoke would have been a crackin advert for the engine!
Love the old 37s such a powerful thing,and a cold start is always a good watch,almost like coming back from the dead every time seemjng happy to be alive again! Ya cant keep a good diesel down!
Thanls for your comment Derrick.
A truly beautiful beast !
What an awesome locomotive ! 👍
I agree.
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@@BONESS27001 You're welcome !
Love the 37 such a gorgeous loco ( in my opinion )
I agree. They are a thing of beauty.
Two suggestions:
1st Close all the door and workers inside, then make a bet who will last longer. One who leaves 1st pays for all rounds in bar. One that leaves last has next Friday free...
2nd Did any of you figured out the loco can be pulled out and cranked outside? Yes, that would ruin point 1...
Excellent video 👍
Looks like anyone going to Bo'ness on the 29th are in for an awesome day
Hope it’s still on!
Great to see a Scottie, at Derby RTC on 1980's I was involved in fitting flange lubrication to the Scotties Nice to see double heading on test, at Derby loco the heavy general repairs were double headed Derby to Leicester to line prove before entering service.
It's actually a Westie. Scotties are black, Westies are white ;-)
I didn't know that about that breed of dog, I just thought both colours were just westies. Thanks for the enlightenment . Have a goodun -bud the painter-
I can still hear these double heading the iron ore trains up the 1 in 35 stretch at Annfield Plain in County Durham on the Consett branch, full bore all the way, sweet music...
Did a railtour there once and an 08 hauled us up to and around the steel works. Bushes and trees were already overgrown at the sides of the track.
Had freights go past where I lived at 1AM and 3PM I loved it. Christchurch NZ.
Ah, nothing like a graceful emergence from its own smoke cloud. Who needs a fog machine?
Seriously though, 37 my favorite British locomotive. Wonderful work and thanks for keeping her alive. (Also hello to the adorable little Sulzer too!)
Thanks for your comment Marcus.
FAB! So good to see 37 403 running. @1:25 “we’re gonna need a bigger fan….” So glad no Baby Sulzers were harmed. They sound FAB too! Cheers Ross, building a layout at East Coast DCC
How can I apply for a job in that shed??? I’m sure I will only survive a year or so due to lung complications then be a blight on the nhs
Surely one of the Greatest if not the Greatest Diesel Locomotive of all time 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I agree. What a workhorse. They even sold some to the French and possibly Hungary after the BR ballsup/breakup.
I had a train set as a kid and it was a 37. Many, many moons ago.
@@mirvids5036 me too.. great train for a kid
If that’s an old eastfield traction depot springburn Glasgow 37 I probably drove it up the west highland line to Oban many times when I was a fireman 1974 in the winter they were never shut down the plume of smoke and fumes that hung over the depot was unbelievable best engine ever my uncle Jim Matthew was a mainline driver at eastfield spent many great shifts wit him as my driver on the ghost train to Oban he would let me drive up and back down best time of my life
Try that again but use some punctuation this time.
6:49 😂 ‘on track to netzero’ love it
🤣
That is such glorious irony
What a magnificent thing…..now that’s what I call playing with your train set👍🏼👍🏼
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great work lads, the euphoria of it all coming together after all the hard work, mixed with the bottom clenching hope that its all going to hold together !!, love it
Just love the sound, but choking on the smoke . I'm glad that there are engineers to fettle these machines for all to remember and not lost to the scrapyard.😁Thanks for the video. Bye the way I think a lot of the rails need replacing unless it's my eyes !!!!
Thanks for you comments.
I suppose it would have be too difficult to have had extraction fans fitted in the engine repair shop🤔🤔
@@neilward5968 I suspect your right there . Just love the sound though.
Great to see the Isle Of Mull out and about again - mind you that she’d will be smoking for a week after that start 😀
Love it! Thanks for sharing! I will try to add more railroad content to my channel.
hi, great video, the 37 is sounding really good, glad its back on track,well done to the engineers who gave the engine a makeover, Have they still got the hybrid DVT with a JCB engine in it ? a really interesting machine.
Yea the DVT is still there somewhere apparently..
@@harrytilbury2453 The Ex DVT resides in the storage siding next to the diesel shed for now.
Hi all, an enjoyable watch, certainly a great deal of exhaust on cold start...I noticed the door was opened in a hurry...great locos these 37's...
Great to see this beastie come to life again. Class 37 reignite....Greta's delight.
🤭🤭🤭
Great quick start. Glad I was not working in the TMD at the time - or for some time after!
"Isle of Mull"What a machine, I love this engine sound .... Awesome
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I can imagine an American OSHA inspector going into convulsions and having a panic attack with seeing all that diesel smoke in a confined area.😁
Glad no sulzers were harmed in the filming of this film. As a southern man I'd hate to see the baby sister of a crompton hurt in any way !! . Joking aside , great video. Thanks for the memory . -bud the painter-
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Beautiful restoration.
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I'll pass it on the SRPS diesel group.
Surprised there's no fume extraction in the shed. Great clip thanks for another 37 fix
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The Class 37 easily has the best start up out of all locomotives. (Except the Deltic)
Good god, watching that first part in the shed almost asphyxiated me, 10,000 miles away.
This was a bad idea and much worse than expected.
We won't be doing that again.
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6:45 Train on the right: "On track to Net Zero!"
(Bigger, stronger, better) Engine on the left: "Not if I have a say in it, nancy boy."
Wonderful... especially love the essential Eastfield craftsmanship.... if you know, you know.
I know. Thanks for your comments.
Who doesnt love these fumes i can about imagine the sweet coldstart smell
Excellent video!!!!
Greetz from the Netherlands,
Bjorn
I love the Diesel smell 😋👍
I love them as well also not a brit
My Scammell Crusader with a Rolls Royce 305 Eagle engine used to smoke like that on a cold start... They all used to do it...👍👍...great video...I love these old diesel's they sound fantastic...
Thanks for your comment Richard.
Opens her eyes and emerges from the shed Iike a Phoenix from the ashes!!
Glad to hear that some of the great trains are still running and being looked after,,had Hornby model's of both,, from northern Ireland,, ☘️☘️😃
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I'm a train and I approve this video! :D
Always loved the 37s from when I was a young kid when my Grandad worked on the Railway...
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I never understand why loco sheds don’t ever seem to have any f ing big exhaust fans in the roof ?
Amazing machines, used to watch go past at local station as a kid, stood on bridge as they passed under with what seemed an unlimited amount if coal wagons on tow back in the 80s
Thanks for your comment James.
That sounds just like my diesel truck when I start it up in the morning.
And the same sexy pollution?😋☠🌲☠😄
Just another big donk starting up, but don’t we simply love em!
Great video, thanks for posting!
Thanks for your kind comment Steve.
The more the government push for zero emissions, the more we like these old engines. Keep the greens angry and keep these beauties running.❤
Every greenie should have one of these.
Awesome start
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It’s fascinating to see a steam engine come to pressure then we have this monstrosity protesting that you decided to put it to work.
Thirty years ago my local diesel sheds were next to the river, about a mile upstream from where I lived. If it had been a still, cold night the cold layer from the moor would trap the smoke from the 125s doing their morning run-up at low level. My bedroom was on the top floor of my house where the air was OK, but when I descended to the ground floor I would gag on the diesel fumes.
This exists while im forced to drink out of straws that taste like a maths book
That sound reminds me of my apprentiseships days at Blackstone!!
Please excuse my ignorance as I'm not a locomotive engineer but a former automotive mechanic, but if this is the first start for a very long time, do you not check around to make sure it's not puking oil/coolant/fuel? And if that is part of the start up process would it not be prudent to pull it out side with another loco, and start up or there, to save the engineer's lungs? 😂
The motor and generator is inside the casing and there are doors from the cabs to get in. So the engineers would be checking the motor inside
@@SvenTviking would it still not be full of poisonous diesel exhaust fumes... They looked like they pretty much enveloped everything in the shed....
love it,cant beat a cold start, one of the good points of the job,
Thanks for commenting Russ.
Brave people, starting that in the shed 😬
vikings, danishmen and scots know no fear.....as we all know.....:-)
@@stratman9449 Can't argue with that 😁
Well done lads another ace repair...
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Seems quite clean at the end when up & running 👍
yep..."quite".....about a years worth of heating oil for a small village went up in that shed......:-)
Everyday occurrence at Immingham 37, 31,s then we got some smoky 20's we use to hit start button then make a hasty retreat , we did have roof fans though . Reckon we had 37403 in many years ago ,had some heavy repairs from Eng room fire it actually melted some air manifold sections
One of the best 37 videos - very enjoyable with action and awesome shots of this powerful beast. Although it did sound like it was being disturbed from a nice long rest. Back in the day, did cold starts take so long with so much groaning and smoke?
I’ve a feeling they never switched them off !
@@iainf I have read somewhere back in the day British rail never switched some of them off over the weekends
Quite true!I remember Laira sheds Plymouth in late sixties, and early seventies when class 52s were left running , certainly overnight, for days at a time.
@@123LooKey I can tell you without a doubt when I was a fireman out of eastfield traction depot springburn Glasgow 1974 all the engines were left running during the winter as they would not start again on there own if an engine shut down it had to be taken into the sheds and the fitters would get it running class 37 27 20 were all the same
@@iainf they were all left running during winter nights as you could not get them to start I was a fireman at eastfield traction depot Glasgow 1974 onwards
Luved the 1750s and the 2750s Fantastic Locos
The 37s really are the dog's. Love the sound...
Quality job! Lovely easy start.
The smoke will clear once she warms up.
It sure did.
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Great video, love the sound. Is that track as bent as it looks at 6:13??
yep.....
I did wonder that lol
Shop/yard tracks typically have some of the worst and oldest rail, because they don’t have to be maintained to the same standards as mainline rail
Such a great sound. The new locos just aren't the same.
And I thought ALCO’s put out a lot of smoke…
Very satisfying video 😊 Locomotives are just big kids
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One would think they’d have a ventilation system to draw out the exhaust.
I had ear defenders on just watching it on my
Phone!!!! A great piece of engineering that revolutionised in its time
Thats a great clip. Love the growl of that loco. Is that a Westie terrier on the side panel.?
It is a Westie, this was the symbol for Eastfield depot in Glasgow who supplied and maintained the locos for the West Highland line in the 1980s.
@@BONESS27001 I look after my mother's westie. Such a loyal little dog..
Keep up the good work and keep preserving those great trains. Regards from Ireland
Love the sound of these beasts
Outstanding filming and editing here. Please tell me what camera, lens, and tripod you are using.
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I use a Panasonic HC-VXF990 4k Video camera with an old manfrotto tripod.
Such an ideal working environment
Hah should bottle that as 'Scotch Mist, Diesel flavour 37'.. Hope the new shed architect has incorporated some d-mn big extraction fans or are they on Santa's list?.!!! ☺
I used to like Class 37s, so that makes me "An-Ex-Tractor fan".
Looking and sounding amazing!
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