37403 cold start and test run, 4K

I have a colleague at work ( I’m HGV driver ) hello if your reading Who owns a diesel electric loco just like this one, back in the 90’s British rail where selling off some old rolling stock & he bought one for just 25,000, scrap value. After transporting it via HGV to a private railway line, he & a group of experts rebuild it & now it’s back out working that he hires out. A company just offered him 4,000,000 for it. It’s great being an HGV driver because everyone thinks we’re losers but we’re not!! The turbo barely fits on a U.K. pallet, it’s massive & the pistons are the size of a basket ball all 16 of them. It weighs 108 tonnes

I worked on the Sulzer engines all through the1970s when I was working in Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness.I used to hear them running in the test bed next to the machine shop I was working in at the time.Some of these diesel locos are sometimes still used on the coastal line between Barrow and Carlisle.I remember going to see one of the first ones that had been built on display at Barrow station in the late 1950,s.Little did I know that I would be working on the same engine many years later.I know we made thousands of spare parts right up until 1981. Mike Docherty.

The fire breathing dragon emerges from its cave...... The 37 has such a distinctive sound there's no other engine you can hear and identify before you see it. These were the main engines that ran near my grandads house when I was a boy and I have had such an affection for them ever since.

Let me guess: No smoking in the shed, right?!?

Reminds me of the bus depot first thing on a winter’s morning in the 70s after the fleet had been started up, we had to walk through the fog to get to the workshop to clock in. Sometimes you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face. Someone phoned the fire brigade one morning, with all the smoke billowing out of the doors they thought the depot was on fire.

I used to work in Manchester Victoria East Junction signal box, and had them parked up right under the large windows, It was a race to close the windows when they started them up especially in hot weather.

The beauty of a massive Diesel loco crawling out of a smoke filled shed. Brings tears to my eyes

Wouldn't it have made more sense... to tow it outside with the 08 shunter before firing up the engines !

Now thats what I call a Growler! - love the things, used to be woken up by them in South Wales Growling along (often double headed) hauling the longest coal train you could ever see, was actually a comforting regularity in my life that was pretty chaotic when young.

Excellent video! Hats off to the workers who got this engine back on the rails. When people see a train pass few have an appreciation for the level of effort and skill required behind the scenes to keep to keep these running. Thank you for posting!

I love seeing these start up and running👍

A truly beautiful beast !

Well done for making such a lovely job of this. The sound is superb

Fantastic! One of my fav engines! I need to visit this railway.

This is the best looking train ever. It brings back so many child hood memories as we used to have 2 coal mines about 7 miles apart closer if you walked and these locos were used to move coal from silverdale colliery over to Holditch colliery Newcastle under Lyme

Wow, it sounds so quiet and smooth - and powerful.

I can remember being at Salisbury train station when one class 37 did a tour of honor before being retired. Brings back childhood memories...

I never thought I would see a steam loco as the clean air option.

Looking and sounding amazing!

Yep, that’s exactly how I was expecting that workshop to look after it started 😂😂😂