Railway Herald
Class 37/0 No. 37012 'Loch Rannoch' makes a smokey departure light engine from Glasgow Queen Street Station on Monday 20th May 1985. New as No. D6712 to Stratford MPD London in March 1961 she would remain allocated to Eastern Region depots, including Thornaby, Gateshead, March and Stratford for almost 20 years, transferring to Eastfield MPD Glasgow during January 1981 and carries the small West Highland Terrier motif of that Depot in this photo. No. 37012 was named 'Loch Rannoch' at Fort William in March 1982, one of 4 Class 37s twinned with Scottish Lochs to mark the arriving of these locos onto the West Highland Lines. Her Scottish stay was quite short as a move back to Stratford occurred in November 1987, followed by transfers to Tinsley, Cardiff and finally Toton from where withdrawl came in June 1999. After a period in store at the Wigan CRDC scrapping took place at Beeston during August 2003.
Bob Woolnough
