Class 37 in Bristol Parkway. Colas Rail Freight. Network Rail.

Class 37 in Bristol Parkway. Colas Rail Freight. Network Rail.
The Class 37 Diesel Locomotives are the Type 3 by the English Electric Company from 1960 to 1965.
Heading the Push Pull is the Mark 2 Driving Brake Standard Open (DBSO). Here the train is running under the wires which are overhead and are energised at 25kV AC overhead as part of the Great Western Railway Electrification which runs from London Paddington to Cardiff Central but was cancelled to Swansea as well as the section from Didcot Parkway to Oxford.
These trains have been in service from 1979. The DBSO was made by BREL (British Rail Engineering Limited) Derby and rebuilt at BREL Glasgow from Brake Standard Open (BSO) Carriages by the retrofit of a Drivers Cab thus forming the DBSO. These DBSO trains were based at Norwich Crown Point Depot and were used with Mark 2 Carriages haulage by Electric Class 86/2 from Norwich to London Liverpool Street. The trains ran under the 25kV AC overhead Electrification on the Anglia Main Line. When BR was privatised these Train Operators were Anglia then the next one was ONE under National Express.
One was confusion for one and for many more than once.
Scenario: ONE called at Platform 1 and one could be re-platformed, but which one is the one one wants.
Direct Rail Services use the DBSO as does Network Rail.
NI Railways (Northern Ireland Railways) ran the DBSO the Gatwick Train which were BR Mark 2s with a Class 111 normally from Newry to Belfast from 2009 to 2015. NI Railways which is run by Translink which runs buses such as Ulsterbus and Metro in Belfast.
The Northern Ireland Railways DBSO is preserved by the Downpatrick & County Down Railway (DCDR). The Mark 2s went to the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI).
These trains ran on the ScotRail sector of British Rail on the Diesel Hauled trains from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverley. These sets were also used on the London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe service run by the InterCity sector of British Rail.
Colas.
Colas Rail was founded as Seco Rail by French railway engineering company SECO (Société d'Études et de Construction d'Outillage). Colas is subsidiary of Bouygues a French Company.
Bristol Parkway was opened by British Rail in 1972.
Since the privatisation of British Rail (BR) the track has been separated from the trains in England, Wales and Scotland. In Northern Ireland track and train are sensibly united under the unified structure of the Integrated System or Vertical Railway.
My video was made on Wednesday 16th of August in the year of our Lord 2023.
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