37103 ambles along the Goods avoiding lines adjacent to Derby station with a northbound ballast train, 13th April 1981.
Locomotive History
Released from English Electric Vulcan Foundry as D6803 on the January 1963 and allocated to Darnall (Sheffield). It would spend the next twenty three years allocated to Eastern Region depots (Tinsley, Immingham, March and Stratford before it entered Crewe Works for refurbishment in the early 1986 and emerged as 37511 in June 1986, allocated to Cardiff Canton. In April 1995 it was allocated to European Passenger Services and became 37607. It did little work over the next two years until sold to Direct Rail Services in June 1997 for whom it still operates with over fifty years service.
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