Help identify a locomotive

[DarloRich]

Can anyone ID this loco? It is a disheveled looking 37 outside the RTC in Derby

https://www.flickr.com/photos/darlo2009/14052588005

thanks!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it is 37 696.

 

[Boothby97]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it is 37 696.

Correct, has been in store a number of years (along with 2 trips to CF Booths Rotherham scrapyard). Assume just for spares.

 

[DarloRich]

Correct, has been in store a number of years (along with 2 trips to CF Booths Rotherham scrapyard). Assume just for spares.

I imagine so - it must be the depot Christmas tree

thanks for the data

 

[al.currie93]

That poor Class 37 purely hypothetically, how much do people reckon it would cost to 1. Buy it and 2. Restore it and place it on a preserved railway?

 

[DarloRich]

That poor Class 37 purely hypothetically, how much do people reckon it would cost to 1. Buy it and 2. Restore it and 3.place it on a preserved railway?

1) Lots!
2) Lots more!
3) Even more after that!

 

[plarailfan]

A bogie overhaul alone, can cost up to £100K for the pair.
Looks like an investment for a lottery winner, easy come, easy go !!
If it's been robbed for spare parts, the power unit and generator may well be incomplete, besides the usual smaller components that are normally first to go.
Maybe you could be looking in the region of £200K to get it up and running again ?

 

[WestCountry]

That poor Class 37 purely hypothetically, how much do people reckon it would cost to 1. Buy it and 2. Restore it and place it on a preserved railway?

Since there are over 50 37s 'preserved' (in various states) already, there'd be no point trying to do anything with one as knackered as that looks!