Class 37 - Colas - 3742137421 Colas Rail Stored by EWS at Motherwell in March 2005 and sold for preservation at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway in 2009, No. 37421 was one of four Class 37s that was purchased by Colas Rail in 2013 for a return to the main line, along with Nos. 37116, 37175 and 37219. While the latter pair debuted for their new owner in the middle of 2014, it would be another year before No. 37421 would re enter traffic along with BR green liveried former

While the latter fell by the wayside

Switchable red tail lights

FCA 610158 EWS + RCTU x3 (220811-2

PowerPack stay-alive system and dual speaker configuration to reproduce the characteristic sound and function of a BR Class 30 or 31 at work

22816 (ex-22536) B1 MSO

was delivered to their Tottenham Gasworks site on 2 October 1947

with loads

It is reputed that 5741 was the inspiration for (and number carried by) “Duck” in the Awdry’s Railway Series

as well as stock moves of both wagons and coaching stock

fully sprung scale buffers

renumbered to 29004 and named “Dave Meehan”

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