Class 37 - BR Green w/full yellow ends - D6956 - DCC Sound Fitted

Class 37 - BR Green w/full yellow ends - D6956 - DCC Sound FittedOne of the hits of our first Class 37 production run was D6704 in BR green with full yellow ends, which quickly established itself among the fastest selling versions and suprised us by outstripping liveries that we expected to be more popular. Thus we'd be remiss in not including a centre headcode version in the second run and our chosen subject is D6956, another stalwart South Wales freight machine. New to 86A Cardiff Canton in January 1965 and then

Full underframe tank

Accessory Bag included contains steam/vacuum hoses and screw couplings

these coaches were synonymous with the East Anglian commuter traffic heading in and out of Kings Cross

ETH bufferbeam configuration with ETH/air/vac/control/MW pipes

yet mundane railway vehicles

where it was part of a fleet of 88DS utilised by the Boilermakers

regularly featuring on the summer dated Norwich-Gt Yarmouth legs of services from London

DRBFO/DMSO: Scale length of 312

37 70 6955 284-4

Reinstated for service 3-Mar-97 and repainted into GNER blue with white logo (loco had been purchased in 1996 by Sea Containers)

but was replaced on the bill by Tulyar

It was one of several locomotives hired by DRS and as such carries DB modifications like auto couplers and wing mirrors but the house colours of new operator DRS