Another first from ViTrains! The rebuilt 'split-box' 37 in the striking Loadhaul livery.

ViTrains have produced a new nose end moulding for this locomotive, correctly reproducing the rebuilt split-box nose end with plated over nose door aperture and headcode boxes removed, replaced with marker lights and high intensity headlight.

The Loadhaul livery has proved popular with enthusiats, being one of the most vivid and strikingly different liveries applied by a pre-privatisation freight company.

Remember! Anticsonline price includes mainland UK delivery of your Loadhaul 37 model.

Built in 1962 as D6744 and fitted with a communication gangway inside the nose end this locomotive had a split headcode box arrangement, with a two-digit box either side of the gangway doors. Allocated new to Darnall shed, Sheffield the locomotive worked across the Midlands and into east Anglia, moving to Stratford (East London) shed before being renumbered 37044 in 1974.
East Anglia became home for many years, before a move to Scotland and Eastfield shed in 1987. However the locomotive was obviously in trouble the following year and was stored unservicable at Motherwell.

Soon recativated 37044  moved to cardiff Canton in March 1988, via Crewe works, emerging as 37710 in July following an extensive life extension overhaul and fitting of additional ballast weight.

37710 transferred to Trainload Freight North in 1994, based at Immingham and repainting into the new Loadhaul livery appears to have taken place by the end of 1996. Several Interesting workings have been reported for 37710 while painted in Loadhaul colours.
A railtour to Grimsby Docks
Paired with 7820 Dinmore Manor, working a passenger train to Minehead on the West Somerset Railway, after running light engine from Westbury. This trip to Minehead and another recorded trip in 1998 were connected with the haulage of stone trains from Whatley and Merehead quarries to Minehead for sea defence improvements.
Standing in for 34027 Taw Valley on a train from London Victoria to Bath and return.
Loadhaul livery was still carried in 2002 and still looking respectible.

In mid 2002 37710 was allocated under EWS special projects, tagged for possible work in Italy! However this did not occur and the locomotive was placed into serviceable store by EWS and was used little afterwards, with only brief reactivations before a return to stored status. In 2007 EWS reviewed its' locomotive projected requirements and placed many of the 37s on the tender list. 37710 was purchased by West Coast Railways, though its' current status is uncertain as it was officially withdrawn in early 2008.

Model Specification

• 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.