37240 starts up for the first time in 2010

Filmed by Simon Searle, Class 37 No 37240 starts up for the first time in 2010 following extensive repairs to the radiator and cooling system. Colin is clearly delighted. Note the smoke rings and nice exhaust firework pop.

The EE Type 3 is also in the process of a bodywork overhaul in preparation for a repaint into laet 1960's style BR blue.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 37240
• Llangollen Diesel Group
• Tractor
• Growler
• cold start
• My Lordz
• Clag
• Hellfire

[asifiwould2]

Looks like it's gathered some rust over time, or is that just on the surface?

[tpickthall]

@asifiwould2 Most of what you can see is red oxide primer, the loco was in the middle of a bodywork overhaul at this point, which is due to be finished next weekend. There were some quite rusty bist as well mind - lots of welding and filling has taken place!

[ipadize]

LOL at 0:27 did you saw the smoke ring?

[beeble2003]

@Gadeto Remember that nobody would bother posting the video if the engine just started up cleanly to a straight idle. The only time you get to see it is when something "notable" happens, usually clouds of smoke and lots of chugging. Just like the only time you see an ordinary person on the news is when they've been murdered; that doesn't mean that everybody's dead.

[justjudy69]

Love ♥ the smoke rings!

[tpap7]

beauty...!

[class37trash]

0:13.. XD

[megatwingo]

Very nice. Thumbs up!  :)

[MrRWJP]

@Gadeto This thing was stone-cold on start up, and had just had serious engine repairs done after being stood out-of-use for quite a while.

Very few of this class of loco are used on the national network anymore, most are laid up in sheds for years out of use before preservation or the cutter's torch find them...

You start up a warm English diesel engine that hasn't been sat outside gathering rust for years and it will start perfectly.

[beeble2003]

@Gadeto In contrast, here's a clean start of three Class 37s, when the engines weren't stone cold. watch?v=PzVN5Wh8lcM

[TheBrett59]

@boilingpoint2 cold oil Causing govener lag

[mrspivvy]

@Gadeto They do that when the engine is stone cold. I am no expert but I believe its because the oil in the governor is cold which makes its "hunt" like that (rev up and fall off by itself) they don't do it when warm. In British rail days it was common practise to leave locos running all the time due to the difficulty in starting from cold. don't forget this loco is getting on for half a century old so its hardly the latest technology