Pre-order Hornby TT:120 Class 37704 - Sound Fitted

Hornby’s Class 37 is the must-have locomotive type and an ideal to expand or start your collection in TT:120 scale. Accurately portraying Britain's most popular diesel class in a wide range of colourful liveries, this model of 37704 is perfect for the early privatisation era in EWS ownership.

Pre-order today from the Key Model World Shop with a £1 deposit. Our customer services team will contact you to collect the balance of £192.99 on arrival of the model into stock. Model due autumn 2025.

Released from Vulcan Foundry in March 1962, this locomotive went new to Hull Dairycoates depot as D6734. Under the BR TOPS reclassification scheme, it became Class 37 No. 37034 in March 1974. As built, the locomotive had split-headcode boxes, which allowed for an end gangway door between them, but these were later removed. 

In January 1986, it became part of a dedicated heavy freight fleet of 44 locomotives which were given the sub classification 37/7 and received the new number, 37704. 

These locomotives were given extra ballast weight and were particularly common on heavy South Wales steel and coal trains. They also worked 32-wagon ‘merry-go-round’ trains trains of 32-tonne air-braked ‘HAA’ hopper wagons. After 1996, No. 37704 became part of the EWS fleet and received its distinctive maroon and yellow livery. 

By the time the locomotive was withdrawn in October 2003, it had completed an incredible 41 years and six months of service. It was scrapped at T.J. Thomson & Sons Ltd’s yard in Stockton by June 2009.

Internally the locomotive features a Next18 DCC decoder socket factory fitted with a Hornby Triplex Sound Bluetooth decoder which plays through a 15mm x 11mm cube speaker. Hornby’s TT:120 Class 37 is highly detailed and is the perfect companion to the modern image freight rolling stock including the and HSTs as well as HAA coal hoppers and TTA tankers.

Product highlights include:

• Class 37/7 37704 in EWS maroon and gold
• DCC sound fitted with a Next18 Hornby Triplex Sound Bluetooth decoder
• NEM standard couplings
• Separately fitted etched metal steps, handrails and grilles
• Must-have model of a ubiquitous modern diesel locomotive

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