Thursday, 6 February 2025

Tractors on the Test Train, Romsey, 6th February 2025

37610 + 37057 Barbara Arbon 1Q23 15:28 Salisbury - Salisbury. The first pair of real locos on this test train since the pair of Colas 67s on 8th April 2021, and a pair of Colas 37s on 19th November 2020.

The test train coaches were 72612 + 975091 MENTOR  + 72631 (PLPR1) + 6262.    


37610 is leased to Colas. As a HNRC asset, this may have been sold to Swietelsky


37610 was delivered new as D6881 from English Electric Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns at Darlington on 21st October 1963


975091 MENTOR, originally BSK S34615 delivered by Gloucester RC&W in October 1955 to Lot 30142, then configured with vacuum brake and dual heat.


37057 leading on the return.


37057 was built at Vulcan Foundry, new as D6757 on 5th October 1962.