The leading engine, 145, reminds me of a pair of 37s we brought light back to Stratford shed. We got off the curve at South Tottenham and drive gave it the beans on the up Cambridge line. Both were possibly even more smoky with an impressive display of sparks to boot.

Class 37, Carbon Neutral since the 1960s

i've read a comment somehere (if i can find it) that the leading 37 had an engine/timing fault that was known about (hence the fitter present, leaning out the cab window). the upshot was they discovered that although clagging badly, the engine was pumping out 2000hp+ in the process. relevant adjustment was undertaken and all was well. btw iron ore and MGR trains to Ravenscraig were 2x37 with another 37 (or occasionally a 26) added on the front at Mossend for the climb through Holytown

The fireman on that front loco is shovelling hard!

This level of entertainment was at the lineside everywhere for free - remember Bristol Bath Rd’s wrecked 31s, Thornaby’s smoking Syphons and Immingham’s choppers? The last great fleet of ruined beasts had to be the DCWA 50s- unbelievable!!

Class 37 looks and sounds menacing. You would jump out of the way a mile away if you were on the line and saw one coming. Scares all the sheep away in the adjacent fields.

Absolutely staggering, what a brilliant catch.

I thought Porn was banned from KZfaq, This video shows I was wrong 😂. Cracking sight and sound

HELLFIRE! fantastic! just wish we could see more of this these days.

You sure that isn't a steam train trying to be a class 37 😂😂😂😂

Used to drive this train and work the banker engine either from Rosehall junction or Mossend batter up the hill into Ravenscraig 4

Oh that rumble is poetry in motion & it is a beast!

Totally splendid vid that! Yeah i'd say that 37145 (formerly 37313) was probably getting rinsed as it was overdue overhaul, which it received in September 1990 at Springburn Major Depot and repainted into Railfreight Metals, being the last 37/0 to retain all-over BR blue with large numbers. . .Crewe Works last gave a classified repair to a mainline loco at end of '87 i believe and Laira level 5 depot was just ending its programme of 37 overhauls in summer '90, with most CEM's carried out at Doncaster. As for the freight service, i wouldn't be surprised if its one of the in-frequent Hunterston to either Healey Mills or Scunthorpe imported coal via WCML, just before they trialled 56's on ECML anglo-scottish MGR's in July '90. . And yeah, i've just checked, the only scottish locos with slow speed control for MGR in June '90 were 26001-7 and 37693/4 surprisingly or not. Rite gona watch that again :)

Incredible. Sounds like a fire breathing dragon. Great catch

37145: "Eat my soot Friends of the Earth". Rolling coal as well as hauling it. Guaranteed #1 position in the next 'carry on clagging' Top Twenty.

Absolutely brilliant machine, miss these in lowestoft 😭

one of the best locos ever.

Just watched this again. Brilliant capture.

Anything with an engine makes me think of it as a person, with a personality and you look after her. This vid is like three sisters helping each other out

No,, you have someone who appreciated the reality of railways. For all we know this locomotive is headed for Works for overhaul. The loco is in small logo blue so unlikely to have been repainted after 1980 when the Large Logo blue on the 2nd loco became the standard paint scheme. The third loco is ex works in Raifrieght triple grey so post 1988. Due for overhaul and may well be working towards there. Trust me, that is one very sick locomotive. Typical overhaul periods were about 5 years but could be extended depending on oil consumption which was (and is) monitored precisely unlike fuel consumption. Tell ya, it sounds in pain! Not something I do like to see, mainly because there is summat very wrong. There should be a brief black cloud on opening the throttle, that's turbo lag for ya, but watch the two other locos. Brief plume then they settle down to the typical clean exhaust of an EE Loco. Search around for classes 24, 25, 26, 27, 44, 45 or 47 and you'll see that Sulzer engines are smoky. High speed engines such as Paxman or Maybachs make a lovely noise but ooooh, the smoke! And as for Deltics? They chuck out more fuel than they burn! However, Mr Drax, I reiterate my previous comment. If you do not like watching railway videos, go watch summat else. I do not like football but leave the footy nerds alone. Why? Can't be bothered. I never did like trolls, especially ones who clearly know nothing about the subject they are trolling. Now sod off.

3 X Class 37's on 46 HAA's. Incredible.

what a fantastic bit video the 37 look clagtastic.

Awesome thrash \m/

Superb video! You can see the lead loco is working it's arse off!!

Blimey!! This sums up why 1990 was the best year for loco's in sectorisation era !!

The front locomotive seems to be doing all the work.

Yikes, has no-one told them about the Clean Air Act? Superb triple-tractor thrash though. 👍

Never knew a 37 had been modified by VW.....

What a smoker !! loads of unburnt fuel love the 37s the other two must be dead weight poor old girl doing all the work !

Rumour has it the Kyoto Agreement was drawn up after viewing this video!

OMG the clag!!! The pure, unadulterated clag!!!!

1000th like. You deserve it, amazing video

Fantastic ! 👍

37145 thinks she's a Russian TE10.........superb video!

Absolutely Amazing!!! Well done!!! Thank you for sharing!!! :):):)

Great to see this video, we must have been standing together when you took the video as I have still photographs of the same working and have had one published in Modern Railways

Doesn't get much better than that.

The lead loco 37145 must have polluted have the world with the shit and Clagg it pumped out lol solid black derv smoke lol happy days of the tractors on triple head mgr trains!!!🔥🔥🔥

Wow what a claggy loco I can see in the video how much smoke the 37 is belching out

Nice mix of liveries there!

They should rename this loco Thunberg!!

very very good scene I really liked very much.

Proper locos ❤

insane clagg bet zontar loves it as much as chris gunntrip and david maxly

37145 might need a little attention before the MOT emissions test....

A nice mix of liveries there.

That's nothing that a few drops of redex wouldn't sort out !!!.

I went to this location in September 1990 and saw this working. Hellfire. Where exactly is it though as I can’t remember now. And what’s there now as I’m certain you won’t get this vantage point anymore?!

Brilliant.

Totally beautiful ❤

With so much clag I half expected the OHLE to flashover!

I used to work the coal trains out of ARYSHIRE TRIPLE HEADED CLASS 37s out of eastfield traction depot Glasgow 1974 when I was a fireman

That is a clag Machine!

A steam train would put less smoke out! I like 37's though! :-)

Watching and Listening to he Coatbridge FL depart Felixstowe past Town station to the FELIXSTOWE TOWN cut off to Trimley b4 the Trinity spur was built was a SIGHT and SOUND i will NEVR forget. Double 37 Blue Sparks and THRASH!. Behold the ENGLISH ELECTRIC Class 37|

What id give for a time machine to go back to them days.

Very nice video👍👍

Love the fitter watching the exhaust ruefully.....

Probably the best i've seen!

As of 27/07/2020, only 37108 seems to have survived the chop. Apparently 37108 is at the Crewe Heritage Centre whilst 37145 was cut up April 2000 & 37040 cut up April 2006.

Excellent thrash

Best thrash/clag video ever i reckon! :D

Thats how i remember 37s working hard!!!!

An EE makes more smoke than an ALCO?? I never thought I'd see the day! 😀

That's more smoke than the amount that would have poured from a Paxman Valenta-engined HST.

The first locomotive has a faulty fuel/air delivery system, the second one is under load but running clean. The engineer is looking at the clagg, this is a test run

HELLFIRE!

OK, that was one hell of a train but so many of these diesels seem to churn out more black smoke that a steam loco. Were the other diesels in this line pulling too, or they just more dead weight?

Used to love going down that little access road when i was younger and hiding under the bridge to watch these monsters heading into the craig, was always a good spot for the local car thieves to burn out an old Rover SD1 or Ford Cortina .

Whoosh my Lords!

WEll recorded mate.

Great video like it very much.Hope there more

Greetings from Indonesia bradher

Turbo? What turbo, who needs those? 😂

It’s got an *ALCO* in that thing for *Soot!*

Now 37145 has proper clag.

True 'rolling coal'!! Awesome!

Is the first diesel a modified steam locomotive or something??

That's the way to do it boys

Sounds great

there goes the ozone layer

Bloody hell thats a lot of black smoke !

Excellent Video my mate just subbed 👍

I do like to see the clag (sorry environmentalists) and I'm sure I've watched videos of Class 37s where the driver deliberately generates clag.....I'm assuming by opening and shutting full throttle. This smoke in this particular video does seem excessive though so maybe there is an issue??

Coorrr mate bring me to the 90s

Complimenti

If Volkswagen built the Class 37

😲 if I was there I'd be coughing my lungs up with all the smoke

They should start the second and third locos so the first one doesn't have to work so hard. 😛

Front engine doing all the work

Proper Growlers !

Super video i like it

...wasn't good day to hang out the washing..

Awesome !

No smoke No poke.

superb!

impressive lashup at the start

The smoke we’ve built under. and there was 2020.

Motherwell engines?

Here is another inconvenient fact. Those wagons are HAA hoppers, built for Merry Go Round trains. To load and unload these trains requires slow speed control fitted which none of those locos have. The wagons are loaded so presumably on their way to a power station except that with those locos, unloading is not possible. So we are watching a staging move, from colliery or port to an intermediate marshalling yard. A suitably equipped loco then takes the train to its final destination. Is the train going north or south? I don't know, I know not the area. If it is going south, is this a regular working used to bring locos for overhaul to Crewe Works? Or has the fault developed en route? I once saw a class 46 go from being hale and hearty to a smoky, misfiring wreck in 7 miles. I was on the train, 1st window. It was taken to Healey Mills Shed which was equipped to do most running repairs. New injectors and pumps made no difference so the loco was withdrawn from service because the class had been declared none standard. There are so many imponderables here that judgements cannot be made. No go and play, Trolls, my fault, I should know not to try to educate the uneducable........