
Class 37 - Loram - 37418 - Exclusive
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37418 An Comunn Gaidhealach Loram Rail
Stored by EWS at Motherwell in April 2005, No. 37418 was purchased by preservationist Steve Beniston from Toton at the end of 2007. The former No. 37271 (built as D6971) initially spent a year at Allelys’ yard at Studley, before moving somewhat appropriately the to the East Lancashire Railway, after which it was named in April 1994. Repainted into the same EWS livery, albeit with its Railfreight Petroleum era name Pectindae, it entered service on the ELR almost immediately.
Unfortunately a power unit failure the following year in put it out of action until 2015, by which time it was half way through a repaint into large logo. In July 2017 it moved to Barrow Hill for further attention which would eventually lead to a long-term hire contract with Colas Rail. This was eventually realised in November 2018 when the Class 37/4 returned to the main line, now fully finished in its 1980s paint scheme complete with Highland ‘stag’ logo and its classic An Comunn Gaidhealach name (after the organisation that promotes the use of Scottish Gaelic) that it wore between October 1986 and February 1991.
It’s first year of Colas hire saw it used on Cardiff-Rhymney commuter turns, Network Rail test trains, and infrastructure/freight workings, while 2020 often found it partnered with NR saloon No. 975025 Caroline. In September 2022, Loram Rail, based at the Derby RTC, took over the hire of No. 37418. As well as its Caroline duties, which continued, the locomotive was common on shuttling vehicles between Toton and Derby in conjunction with the MRA to JNA-Y ‘Hawk’ rebuilding programme, as well as stock moves of both wagons and coaching stock.
In January 2024 it was repainted into Loram Rail’s house colours of Flame red, black and white making it one of the most recognisable locomotives on the current railway network.
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