Class 37 - BR Green (Small Yellow Panels) - D6724 - DCC Sound (C)Departing from English Electrics Vulcan Foundry in August 1961, D6724 was briefly allocated to 31B March before heading to 30A Stratford the following month. A dependable member of the East London depot for the next five years its duties would have included Great Eastern main line and Cambridge line passenger diagrams, inter regional turns, particularly the Manchester Harwich boat train, as well as parcels and freight services. By now wearing small

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being stored in February 2024

Controlling Locomotives

50029 Renown was the last of 14 examples to gain the same paint job as Royal Oak in June 1987

external control

this loco spent its entire working life in South Wales before being withdrawn from Newport Pill shed in 1959

still carrying its WMJEA legend despite nationalisation of the industry in 1948

The engine was purchased from the NCB and moved to the South Devon Railway at Buckfastleigh in 1978

Roofs were painted white or off-white

which was sold to preservationists in full working order

RP25-110 wheels OO wheels with provision for re-gauging to 21mm gauge

Flexible Locomotive & Accessory Control