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Just briefly, while we're on the subject of classes ending in '7' to work the WR, here's a list of Class 37s I cribbed from Flickr.
6700, 6711, 6715, 6729, 6759, 6760, 6762, 6778, 6779, 6787, 6790, 6793, 6819, 6827, 6832, 6834, 6835, 6837, 6838, 6839, 6843 - 6859, 6861, 6865, 6873, 6902, 6903, 6909, 6919, 6936, 6937.
Total: 46.
Split-box 12, centre-panel 34.
A healthy complement of 66A and 64B hardware amongst that lot; interestingly 6700 was loaned to Haymarket for push-pull trials from 29/2/68 under tutelage of the RTC so I suspect that's how she reached the locus.
The 67XX contingent were all ER machines, with a heavy Gateshead bias. The low numbered 68XX were Welsh exiled to GD in '66, and the 6837-59 batch were the mainstay ScR allocation transferred in from Wales en masse in '66. We're back to the 52A connection for the remainder of the 68XX; 6902 and 3 were 64B early try-outs, 6909 was a real rarity as it was Welsh throughout the sixties; 6919/36/7 were Welsh until transfer to Eastfield in Spring 68, and onto Haymarket by the Autumn.
EDIT: Only main line diesel classes without lists of known members to have worked on the WR now are: 24, 25, 26 (although it's likely that most if not all did) and 40.
No Co-Bos are thought to have worked, 5511 plus a couple of other 31s, 21/29s not known if any worked, I'm disregarding 15, 16, 23, 33, hydraulics etc...
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Gloucester class 100 MBS car no. SC51117 ran in blue with small yellow panel until 1973. I cannot recall any of the DTC cars in this livery.
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Waverley Route new image links and discussion
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I have a nice colour pic of class 29 D6107 in ex works blue livery which states on the back that it was taken at Carlisle Kingmoor in August 1967. I cannot say for sure that it is Kingmoor, but it is certainly a steam depot.
Assuming that it is indeed Kingmoor, is it possible that D6107 wrked via the Waverley Route with a relief train from perhaps Dundee to Morecambe or Blackpool? The loco displays a 1Z headcode indicating a special or relief train?
I know that traction knowledge would have been an issue, but that would have been the same regardless of what way the train was routed. Anybody got any ideas?