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What Is In The Front Bit Of A Class 37 Diesel

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interele | 19:39 Sat 11th Jul 2015 | How it Works
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What is in the front bit of a class 37 diesel ie the bit forward of the drivers cab

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The Class 37 nose housed traction motor blowers and compressor/exhauster equipment according to http://www.railblue.com/Class%20Headers%20v2.0/class_37V.2.htm
20:13 Sat 11th Jul 2015
The Class 37 nose housed traction motor blowers and compressor/exhauster equipment according to http://www.railblue.com/Class%20Headers%20v2.0/class_37V.2.htm
There may have been space in the nose for the crew to pass through. Some early diesels were built with doors in the nose to make a corridor connection with passenger stock. These were rarely used and eventually sealed shut.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/49391-diesel-nose-gangway-doors/
Yes Jonathan is right.

Traction motor blowers, exhausters, compressors, air reservoirs and other general ancilliary equipment. Class 37s did have connecting corridor doors (hence their distinctive split headcode windows) though I believe they were never used operationally.

Early diesel locos had the "bonnet" design following the LMS prototypes numbers 10000 and 10001. The Chief Mechanical engineer of the LMS at the time (R C Bond) insisted on the design as he wished to afford the crew a measure of protection. Later designs did not follow the principle.

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