Railway Herald
A very recently overhauled Class 37/8 No. 37898 in Railfreight Trainload Coal livery waits at the London end of Platform 5 at Crewe Station on Thursday 11th June 1992. Delivered new to Landore MPD as No. D6886 in November 1963 she would remain a Western Region loco almost all of her working life, just moving across South Wales from Landore to Cardiff in April 1966 where she would remain until March 1998. Whilst at Cardiff she would be renumbered under TOPS as Class 37/0 No. 37186 during May 1974 and finally to Class 37/8 No. 37898 in December 1986. Transferred away from Cardiff in March 1998 she made her final move to Toton TMD from where she was stored for component recovery in December 1999. Periods in store followed at Barrow Hill, Margam and Long Marston before being moved, by road, to EMR Kingsbury for dismantling on 8th November 2010 where she was cut up during September 2011.
Bob Woolnough
