BR Railfreight operated the majority of the class 37 fleet, introducing a grey livery with wrap-around yellow ends and large arrows logo. This plain livery was enhanced with the addition of a red solebar stripe.

37378 was one of a group of machines equiped with regeared bogies for improved tractive effort, a welcome variant within the ViTrains range.

Powered by a centrally mounted motor with flywheels in a diecast chassis drives two axles on each bogie through helical reduction gears.  Accurately reproduced tumblehome, bonnet shaping and end taper are complemented with flush glazing, etched windscreen wipers, etched roof fan grilles and finely moulded bodyside grille and panel detailing.

Remember Antics price includes UK delivery of your model locomotive.

37 378 entered service in 1963 as D6904, being sent new to Cardiff Canton shed. Transferred to Scotland in 1968, the TOPS number 37 204 was applied in 1974. The locomotive was tranferred back to the western region in 1978, with allocation to Cardiff Canton and Bristol Bath Road sheds.

Following a calssified repair at Crewe in 1987 37 204 moved to Thornaby and the Tinsley depots before gaining the number 37 378 in 1988. The locomotiove travelled widely across the the BR network, being recorded on several summer extra passenger trains to Blackpool and on several Swindon-Cheltenham trains during the early 1990s.

Sadly by the mid-1990s 37 372 was clearly in need of overhaul and was placed on restricted duties for a period before withdraw in 1996 and disposal by Booths of Rotherham

• Five pole motor with twin flywheels
• Double cardan shaft transmission
• Two-axle drive on each bogie
• Helical gears for precise mesh and improved traction
• Reduction gearing via ten gear sealed unit in each bogie
• Traction tyre fitted to one wheel of each bogie
• Die-cast heavy metal chassis
• Moulded cable ducts to secure wiring and prevent damage
• Intricate bogie detail
• NEM standard couplings
• PCB with NEM652 socket for decoder
• Constant brightness LED lighting
• Directional red and white LED illumination
• Individual sealed lighting casing prevents bleed
• Highly detailed scale body
• Intricate radiator, panel and rivet detail
• Etched brass radiator fan grille
• Cab and engine room flush glazed windows
• Micro spring mounted buffers
• Removable couplings
• Metal windscreen wipers
• All lamps fitted with clear lenses

Customer Fit extras

• Fine/precise bufferbeam piping/cable detail
• Bogie footsteps
• Lamp irons
• Authentic jointed coupling hooks and links