Class 37 - Loram - 37418 - DCC Sound Fitted - Exclusive37418 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

complete with plated bodyside windows

Full underframe tank detail with brackets and pipework

Metal helical gears fitted for maximum performance and slow speed running

it lost its Hercules name in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer Sir Edward Elgar – who had no connection with Brunel’s famous railway

37421 is still a regular atop PLPR (Plain Line Pattern Recognition) and UTU (Ultrasonic Testing Unit) formations and is expected to remain a key component of the operator’s fleet for several years to come

It returned to traffic and proved a valuable member of the working fleet until its last boiler ticket expired in 1995

Permanently fitted speakers mounted in both types of DMSO and DRBFO

HYA  37 70 6955 339-9

Differing brake arrangements tooled: Built with Morton double shoe per wheel clasp brakes

Close coupled gangways

Limited Edition

Although intially outshopped with plated headcode still extant this was removed on its repaint into the 'fade' scheme in 2014 and the Accurascale model will correctly feature the smoothed off nose