LOCOMOTIVE 37142

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  FACTS AND FIGURES

Delivered to Cardiff Canton May 1963 from EE's Vulcan Foundry as D6842
08/66 Transferred to Polmadie
11/72 Transferred to Cardiff then Landore
03/74  Renumbered to 37142
02/78 Transferred to Laira
04/83 Transferred to Cardiff
03/86 Transferred to Thornaby
10/87 Transferred to Bristol Bath Road
05/88 Transferred to Cardiff
01/89 Allocated to Departmental Regional Civil Engineers (Western) Pool
03/92 Allocated to Regional Railways South Wales & West Pool
03/94 Allocated to Trainload Freight West (Departmental)
02/95 Transferred to Bescot, allocated To Transrail Bescot 37 Pool
01/97 Transferred to Crewe
05/97 Stored Unserviceable at Crewe
08/02 Moved to Barrow Hill (HNRC)
02/09/03 Arrived at Bodmin
 

 picture of locomotive 37142 with clay hood wagons

See a Video Clip of the loco un-restored on its first test run in September 2005
(This is a 2.11Mb file so takes a while to load)

 
37142 was a regular visitor to Bodmin on china clay trains during its time based at Laira depot. It arrived at Bodmin during 2003 and was returned to working order in 2004 and repainted into 1970s BR Blue during 2005,which was the livery it carried during its working years in Cornwall in the late 70s/early 80s.