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DRS to retain Class 37s for ‘the time being’

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DIRECT Rail Services (DRS) has decided to suspend the ‘sale and lease back’ arrangement which it had planned to proceed with for 10 of its Class 37s.

Nos. 37218, 37401/402/407/4 19/422/423/424/425 and 37716 were offered to potential buyers in July subject to an undertaking to release them back to DRS on short-term loan for duties such as Rail Head Treatment Train workings, but it

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