Class 37 - The BIG picture
37403 "Isle of Mull" and 37716 both look
in pristine condition as they make a smoky departure for Crewe
from the parcels
platform at Chester on a warm day in July 2016.
Note the surviving
old style
lighting
on this platform with the station name incorporated.
37421 and its measurement train awaits departure from platform 2 at Cardiff Central on a wet June day in 2016
Four years later, still raining, and it's 37421 again. Arriving from Rhymney in passenger service on a damp morning in February.
Ready for a blizzard at Norwich, 37407 'Blackpool Tower' and snow ploughs.
But the sun's come out instead, 37407 'Blackpool Tower' with MKII coach at Norwich.
The Strategic Steam Reserve - Myth or Reality?
Lines of dusty steam engines stored and ready for
use after the apocalypseFind
out about the hundreds of UK steam locomotives kept in storage
since the sixties in case the Nuclear balloon went up.
After the
Soviet ICBM's had finished dropping their estimated total of 2000
Megatons TNT equivalent, a battered but uncowed Britain could emerge
victorious from the fallout in the shape of Thomas the tank engine
pulling a trainload of ministry of supply corned beef...
