Railway Herald
Class 37/5 Nos. 37688 and 37672 about to leave Ipswich Lower Yard on Saturday 5th September 1998 with 6M94 Ipswich - Tunstead empties (Limestone for the nearby Sugar factory at Sproughton). The train comprised 35 MEA's and was the first of 11 Sugarstone trains at Ipswich. This was the first revenue earning train at this location since December 1993. No. 37688 was new as D6905 at 87E Landore on 5th November 1963 and under TOPS became 37205 in May 1974 and was converted to 37/5 on 23rd February 1987.She was sold to DRS in September 2005 and carries the name Kingmoor TMD.
Keith Partlow
