I've been lucky to be a drivers assistant regularly these on a heritage railway , and one of my favourite locos to work on , EE certainly made a great loco with these😊

My old father in law spent 40 odd years on the railways, he started out working out of Aberbeeg, before it finally closed then moving to the Severn Tunnel Junction for a few years before retiring. Before Ebbw Vale Steel Works closed its hot end, i remember during the 70s seeing 37s hailing the massive heavy oil tankers full of fuel for the Open Hearth Furnances. Walking the once busy tracks in and around around Llanhilleth, it was a great place to pick up spilled Iron Ore for sling shot ammunition. Born in 61, i can still remember steam in the valleys, the fiest diesels and the sad lines if dead steam engines heading down the valley to Woodhams Barry Scrap yard.

enjoyed the one of the aproach to neath witg BP Baglan Bay in the background

Class 37's simply the best.. They have been the workhorses of the British railway operations both rail freight and passenger trains for many decades especially in Wales and Cumbria... I love the sound of the engine at idle and when moving off

Brilliant I was a guard at Swansea Eastern depot from 1971 to 1982 cold days in the van class 9 trains

I remember the Waterman 47s being thrashed out of Cardiff to get up the incline to Queen ST. I jumped on at Cardiff and off at Queen St just for the experience. The triple headed 37s taking ore from Port docks to Llanwern Steelworks. I was living in North Cornelly and I was gliding in Stormey Down at 13 yo, 300' above sea level. I could hear them at night but could'nt catch them and I was too young to drive. lol. Had I known they were triple headed I would camped the night at Pyle station. The line from Margam to Pyle was reletavly flat after Pyle it got a steeper and steeper towards the summit. So they would have been on full power all the way from Margam. Do you have a video of them climing up Stormey bank because I still have that sound in my head.

South Wales mines need reopening. We can provide all the coal we need for steelmaking and power generation. Cymru am Byth!

I wish i was around there, variety of locos/rail links/open areas/space. Now the network is far different.

Mine doesn’t say make a disc. And it keep saying data disc when I hit record. What am I doing wrong

These mines need reopening to fill the energy gap

My son just got into star wars and found this game. I lost the cassette long ago and this is a life saver. Thank you so much for letting me use it and show him a cool game.

We should not have given up on coal. Energy Autarky is everything.

Oh this is a golden oldie & love your videos 🙏👏👍 this nostalgia on epic proportions!

Always had these thrashing away passed my village, on the way to Onllwyn washery back in the day.

“In the 80s” was a bit wrong 😂

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954.

I lived in Ystrad Mynach between 97 and 2014 and would regularly hear the 37 working hard.

is this the whole vhs turned to a video? or has it been shortened down? I can't help but see its 1 hour and 50 minutes on the timer but only 50 minutes of video, does vader speed up the mid-way through or something?

Buon Natale, Lord Fener

Excellent video 👍 For the first time I've actually got round to watching this all the way through

I remember these flying past wink ups camp in mid 80s when I was just a kid. I never really paid attention to them in the day, but at night I’d hear them thundering through. Scared me a little until I grew up. I am way way older now yet I still love these engines. I now live by the Walsh coast and I hear them every now and then still thundering through flint.

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Brilliant love it thanks

Brilliant Video more of these rail documentary videos it gives you an insight into how versatile the class 37s were back in the 80s , 90s and even the 00s 👍

Those were the best trains

Omg! Brilliant in every way! i grew up next to a route like this and it was amazing, I’ll never forget that growl of the class 37.

Thank you for the video, these bring back some brilliant memories.

I grew up in the south east of England where trains were catapillars of coaches with flat fronts and doors you had to slam. I wanted all the rails torn up and replaced with more roads. I wasn't until I was older and moved away and then saw films like this that I realised how exciting trains were and what I'd missed.

Great video thanks for uploading. If you are like me and you like your 37 action to be pre privatisation then 00:00 to 25:33 and 1:04:15 to the end will do you nicely!!

I remember well the double headed iron ore trains from Tyne Dock to Consett in County Durham, a brutal branch line with two sections of i in 35, the sound of two English Electric engines at full throttle will live with me forever...

Beautiful machines my grandfather drove these

Great video,my only complaint is that it was not long enough

Back when trains were trains!!

Grew up to these up and down our valleys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I’d like to know wale’s horn codes, as in long, long, short, long which is the crossing for America, I know one long is in Britain and other areas, but what about the reverse code? Or the start up code?

Why does it sound like they're always in and out of the throttle? Why don't they hold the rpm at one setting, it sounds like they are driving a truck with a automatic transmission

"Network rail decided they didn't want preserved locos hauling every day services" haha thats funny how come they're letting preserved locos on the mainline hauling every day services now? Passenger and freight??

The man or men who designed these engines are so awesome 😎 and brilliant in my eyes 👀, fantastic, brilliant, and most off all AWESOME 😎, thank you so much, 😎👍🇳🇿🌈😁😎 kiwi Pip from New Zealand, wish we had some here, but ok with videos, thanks again 😎👍🇳🇿🌈😁😎.

Diesel classe 37 is good 😄👍🏾👍🏾🙏🥰🥰😍😍

That diesel locos is nice 🥰😍❤️👍🏾😄😁

I can still recall the class 37 that derailed and ended on its side and lay there for days until the crane recovery arrived and slowly placed it back onto its wheels...The train ran away from the Windsor colliery and picking up to much speed going down track to abertridwr it left the rails has it crossed over the points at speed and taking the train into a different direction over she went!

This is ace. I think if I was a train driver in the 80s/90s driving a class 37, I'd feel like I'd really made it...that sound...plus it was before the world went mad, better times. Thanks for uploading, this is gold

Total porn!!!😍😍😍

Triple heading was only done on Iron Ore, not Hot Rolled !

37 blows its horn. KZbin Caption: [Music] Wow this AI is getting pretty good.

Pure nostalgia, absolutely fantastic video of days gone by and also showing what has been lost. Thank you for sharing this amazing insight.

I wish more videos like Class 20,31,33

What's the weird muzak for?

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Most industry is gone now..