Class 37 Diesel Double Header

[Ryewolf]

I'm glad I didn't have to pay to fill these 2 engines up with diesel, they hold 900 gallons each.

[Paul]

Why 2 Geoff?

Would one pull the other as well as the carriages?

Paul.

[Ryewolf]

It was a diesel gala, they like to double head the class of engines whether steam or diesel. I think in this case they can both provide motive power to pull the carriages. But to be honest either one could have pulled the 5 or 6 carriages behind it along with the other train. On double headed trains there is a Pilot and Train engine, there also could be a Banker engine which could be at the back to help push the train along, I think the more modern diesel engines can be linked so they both work together as one engine.

[markknittle61]

Nice set, I am guessing 1940-1950s vintage?

[JamesT]

12 minutes ago, markknittle61 said:

Nice set, I am guessing 1940-1950s vintage?

Not sure when they were introduced, but they were the workhorses of the railway in East Anglia in the 1970's. I should think that about 80% of loco hauled trains through Cambridge were EE3 hauled in that era. I think that there are still a few in service hauling track maintenance trains.

[Ryewolf]

37059 and 37109 (is in Trainload Metals livery), pictured here were built in 1962

[Clicker]

I don't know much about Diesel  engines at all and usually  I don't find them  of great interest to me personally as  they don't epitomise  a look that I find  pleasing ... however I do like these two photographs : the first  because of the  opposite expressions on the faces of the  two chaps on the footplate    and the  reflections of the unseen   people on the platform  and the second  because of both the  balanced composition and the tonal values  in the Mono processing ... I may have been inclined to crop that  bit of  the second engine on the right  as it distracts me a bit Rye ...