EWS's Component Recovery & Distribution Centre at Wigan has become the final resting place for many redundant locomotives. All locomotives that arrive here are destined for stripping of all reusable components, many of which are now obsolete and are costly and/or hard to obtain. These components are then distributed around to be reused on other sevicable examples in order to keep them going. In this view we see 37088, one of the former 37's in the Motherwell TMD scrapline which was moved here on the 21st July 1999, waiting it's fate at Wigin CR&DC on 14th August 1999.

Photo and Scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk)
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