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LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone
Rugby Central Station: gcrgen320
A pair of English Electric Type 3 Diesel-electrics, D6825
and D6840 pass through Rugby en route from Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Ltd
to be delivered to Canton shed in Cardiff in May 1963. Ordered as part of the
British Rail modernisation plan they were later to be classified under TOPs as
Class 37 locomotives. D6825 was to remain in service for thirty-two years being
withdrawn as 37904 in April 1996 from TI Tinsley MPD to be scrapped by CF Booth
of Rotherham (it had been renumbered as 37125 in January 1973 and then as 37904
in 1986). Classmate D6840 had an even longer period in service lasting
thirty-eight years being withdrawn as 37140 in July 2001 from TI Tinsley MPD to
be cut up by English, Welsh & Scottish Railways at Wigan.
Tony Newman
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