Europhoenix have stabled Class 37 No. 37901 at Manchester Piccadilly for the Stockport blockade to provide support to Network Rail and other operating companies.

A train crew are assigned to the locomotive 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the work to assist operating companies if a loco / unit breaks down.

Europhoenix is well known for assisting companies with unit ‘drags’ or acting as thunderbirds when a unit or freight train breaks down on the mainline.

The 37 is in a heritage livery, appearing in British Rail Trainload Freight ‘Metals’ livery, and is the sole surviving Mirlees-powered Class 37.

The locomotive is on public display when not out on Thunderbird missions.