Class 37

Where you can drive it

Comes with

• Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
• West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives

With another DLC

Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.

• Airedale & Wharfedale Network: Leeds & Bradford - Skipton & Ilkley: with Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
• Birmingham Cross-City Line: Lichfield - Bromsgrove & Redditch: with Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
• Cardiff City Network: Radur & Coryton to Penarth & Bae Caerdydd: with Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
• Cathcart Circle Line: Glasgow - Newton & Neilston: with Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea or West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives
• East Coastway: Brighton - Eastbourne & Seaford: with Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7 or Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea or West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives
• Glossop Line: Manchester - Hadfield & Glossop: with Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7 or Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
• Great Western Express: with Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7
• London Overground Suffragette line: Gospel Oak - Barking Riverside: with Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7 or West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives
• Midland Main Line: Leicester - Derby & Nottingham: with Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7
• Riviera Line: Exeter - Plymouth & Paignton: with West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives
• ScotRail Express: Edinburgh - Glasgow: with West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives
• Southeastern Highspeed: London St Pancras – Ashford Intl & Faversham: with Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7
• Thames Valley: Windsor, Henley & Marlow Branch Lines: with West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives
• WCML: Preston - Carlisle: with Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea
• West Coast Main Line Trent Valley: Milton Keynes - Crewe: with Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7
• West Somerset Railway: with Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea or West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives

In the game

Names in Dovetail's lists: Class 37, Class 37/5, Class 37/5 RF, Class 37/5 RSR, Class 37/7 EPX, BR Class 37 EPX.

In these DLCs: Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea, West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives, Rail Operations Group BR Class 37/7.

Official manual: Tees Valley Line: Darlington – Saltburn-by-the-Sea, West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives.

The real thing

The English Electric Type 3, a diesel-electric locomotive built in the early 1960s under the British Rail modernisation plan. It worked passenger trains in East Anglia and Scotland and freight across the country, and many still work today. Enthusiasts call them "tractors" for the sound of the engine.

• Built by: English Electric at Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns (Wikipedia)
• Built: 1960–1965 (Wikipedia)
• Number built: 309 (Wikipedia)
• Operators: British Rail, Colas Rail, EWS, Direct Rail Services, West Coast Railways, Europhoenix, Rail Operations Group, Locomotive Services Limited (Wikipedia)
• Top speed: 90 mph (145 km/h) or 80 mph (129 km/h) with regeared CP7 bogies. (Wikipedia)
• Power: Engine: 1750 bhp (1,305 kW) (Wikipedia)
• Wheel arrangement: Co′Co′ (Wikipedia)
• Power type: Diesel–electric (Wikipedia)
• Safety systems: AWS (Wikipedia)

Photo: Goose, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

From the English Wikipedia article British Rail Class 37 and Wikidata.