I caught 37422 sitting at the peg at Ryecroft on the last day of November, with one of the final Birch Coppice to Bescot workings, before the service was discontinued.
Amazingly, Class 37s are still appearing at Bescot, whether EWS ones on local freight trips, DRS examples on flask or light engine moves, or WCRC-owned engines on ECS trains passing through.
Long may these 40+ year old British-built English Electric loco's continue to run...
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The classic view of a 37 at WL51, taken from the Mill Lane bridge presumably. I wonder how many have sat here over the years. Its still hard to believe that the 'Coppice trip has finished...
I liked the Coppice trip, but I miss getting 37s on other workings. I missed the Toton trip everytime it was 37 hauled and many of the other trips too, often because I was working. But it was thanks to the Birch trip that the 37s were about. Wonder wether we will see any more at Bescot now?
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