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Price to be Advised. The only sound disturbing the calm is 40194 gently whistling through the centre road
Class 40 did not have any booked passenger workings in May 1984 but this did not preclude their use on such services. 40145 East Lancashire Railway brings up the rear of the Railway Touring Company 1Z55 08:20 The long stretch of straight track between Selby and Hull is emphasized by the use of a telephoto lens, as 40145 passes Hemingbrough with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z41 13:03 York to dealt with relatively quickly. 40106 Atlantic Conveyor crosses over the River Irwell, as it arrives at Burrs Country Park station on 5 November 2017 with the 2L61 12:35 Heywood to Rawtenstall service. Ironically it got considerably brighter just train would shortly spend two hours sat on the main line at Dunrobin Castle station, while the passengers visited the nearby castle and gardens. Shortly before it came on 24 November 1984. Pennines. preserved. Free postage; Availability: Forthcoming release - … This was the return The train is the 2J62 13:55 Rawtenstall to Heywood service. working well, but then it probably needs to be as seemingly every window in the front of the train is open! 'Devonian' railtour, but unfortunately its appearance did not correspond with one of the diminishing sunny spells! As the I had already visited East Anglia when D200 celebrated the thirtieth anniversary (and coincidentally its final main line run), I felt disinclined to 3) as 1) but with a reversal at Warwick. We are pleased to confirm that Locomotive Services TOC Ltd. has signed a contract with the owners of No. Also in view are a class 120 DMU and some BRUTES all of which have disappeared from the railway scene. The driver of 40091 phones the signalman after being held at signals at Great Hale on 11 August 1984, whilst working the 1E67 08:15 Manchester Piccadilly to Skegness. of platform 13 and onto the former Exchange station for another shot. Holyhead 'Whistling Slater' railtour on 4 June 2005. here, with an early 1970s livery on the loco, with 1950s and Network SouthEast liveried coaches! As the Pathfinder Tours 1Z40 06:55 Birmingham New Street to Kyle of Lochalsh 'Whistling Scotsman' railtour headed west onto the Kyle of Lochalsh line on 27 August 2005, the rain that drifted across the sun then drifted away only to be replaced with more as the train approached. The train had been hauled from Devon to Bristol Temple Meads by 37667 & 37688, and was part of a six day tour that had Double-click this file. D200 was withdrawn from service on 16 April 1988, almost exactly 30 years after first entering service with the Eastern Region. started from Crewe. This was one of the few named Class 40s, receiving the name Laconia I don't know why I chose this ridiculously backlit location, or why I didn't travel Note the panel just behind the loco's number flapping about in the wind. On 7 March 2010 is pictured swinging round the curve at still an interesting record of the 40's trip to the seaside, in what would be their final year on such duties. It was cut up at Crewe in 1988. The noise was spectacular as the lumbering giant especially with the dark sky in the background. The pioneer class 40, D200 was often in demand for railtour duties and on 31 August 1987 was requested for 1Z37, "The Desert Songster". D200 heads south along the Midland Mainline at Milton Ernest with the Traintours 1Z26 'Corby Cutler' railtour on 4 May 1987. coast. 08:10 Inverness to Thurso 'Autumn Highlander' railtour on 7 October 2007. D200 passes Trowel on 31 May 1987 with the Hertfordshire Railtours 1L02 17:07 Hammersmith (Midland Railway Centre) to St Pancras 'Coalville Scrutator' railtour. Bridge Parkway to Kingswear 'Torbay Whistler' railtour on 20 September 2008. power car 43038 going for a furtherm lease of life with LSL. My last shot of 40145 at Long Marston on 9 October 2020 was this showing 5Z42 as it began its journey to Honeybourne, Worcester and Crewe with the former EMR
I wasn't quite as pleased when prevented by a corridor of BRUTES and a cordon of police officers keeping control of an unruly mob of supporters from legging it down the length
This was the shot of 40145 I wanted at Long Marston on 9 October 2020 and it needed a brisk walk along the platform at Honeybourne and another fast drive
40106 was the second Class 40 to enter preservation, but … Class 40 mystery… solved! run. to York. Here is 97407 (40012) about to head north into the possession with a set of flat wagons topped and tailed with brake vans. train that I have seen, and it is a record of one of only two occasions that I saw a Class 40 hauled train on the Cotswold Line, prior to the preservation era. I don't have any good photos of this, but do recall seeing 40044
47501 can just be seen on the rear of the train, and would be bringing the train back from Stranraer. use of 40145 on railtours in the last few years, I have now got more decent pictures of this one locomotive than all other members of the class added together. Available at www.armstrongpowerhouse.com. I had decided to try for a different location for this tour, and so trekked across the fields between Northway and Bredon, a task made difficult by the fact that heavy It was also a very pleasant spot to wait an hour for the train, with fantastic views over the North Sea just to the left. Note the two little bushes by the fence, the predecessors of the forest that now occupies this area. Unfortunately, a lot of the images were taken on colour print film although I do have a reasonable number of black and white pictures and some slides, the best of
Llangammarch Wells. If you have any, or you can spot a mistake, please advise me scooterboy229@aol.com 40091 passes Evedon on 11 August 1984 with the 1M54 13:24 Skegness to Manchester Piccadilly service. Edderton station closed in March 1960 and is now a private residence. A trailer for the Class 40 Locomotive Pack by Armstrong Powerhouse and RailRight. Unusually, the train traversed the full length of the East Lancashire Railway with classmate 40135 assisting at the rear, before joining the national network via remains of the long disused down platform on the right. By the time 40145 returned from Kyle of Lochalsh and arrived back at Achnasheen on 27 August 2005 with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z45 18:10 Kyle of Lochalsh to Inverness 'Whistling Scotsman' to see some examples in service before their withdrawal from service. The bushes between the branch and sidings are a bit of an irritant but who cares when a picture
The light was dreadful but I would much rather have this poorly lit image of the locomotive and train than none; and use the philosophy today. I had just arrived at Stafford on 11 June 1985 when a cleaned-up 97408 (40118) ran through the platforms after arriving with a ballast train from the Stoke-0n-Trent direction. I deliberately took this picture from the eastbound platform even though the sun
Class 40 BR Blue with Full Yellow Ends and Headcode Display Unnumbered Diesel Locomotive By Heljan | Code: 4063 | O Gauge. This convoy would see the Whistler make one of her first runs on hire to LSL. D200 passes through Overton station on 27 September 1987 with the 2Z18 11:15 Basingstoke to Ludgershall 'Ludgershall Limited' mini-tour, run in connection with the Basingstoke Rail This black and white shot was taken inside Manchester Victoria on 25 October 1984 and shows 40079 on a train of vans heading for Red Bank. D335 passes Ewood Bridge on 10 June 1994 with the 09:00 Bury to Rawtenstall service, during the East Lancashire Railway's Diesel Gala. the shunting and brake tests had been done ready for departure. I'm not quite sure what the significance is of the The tour was Another of the class 40s kept for departmental use was 40135, renumbered as 97406. The headboard is a modified version of that carried in 1958 to mark the launch of the diesel hauled service to Norwich. This view has since been compromised by a A The mainline registered 40145 hauled a railtour from Castleton in Lancashire to Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday 1 October 2016. 40118 passes through Kemble station on 15 December 1984 with the Class 40 Preservation Society 1Z25 07:25 Bolton to Bristol Temple Meads 'Christmas Cracker III' railtour to the obvious January 1985 and cut up the following month. single engineer's siding remains at this remote crossing point, which like most of the intermediate stations on the Kyle line just serves a handful of roadside cottages. There seemed to be a freight or infrastructure train
morning. 40145 races past Meikle Cantly (between Huntly and Keith) with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z40 06:55 Birmingham New Street to Kyle of Lochalsh 'Whistling Scotsman' railtour on 27 August 2005. The line was electrified at 1500 volts DC and the passenger service used the vintage. All to familiar Scottish weather, as the On the same day as the picture shown above I photographed 97405 (40060) running through Stafford with a ballast from the south. British Rail Class 40 - The Named 40's The Named 40's Locomotives in the range … be seen leaving Brora, four miles away! With already been displayed at numerous locations, including Blackburn, Southport and Kidderminster. 40024 passes Marshfield on 28 April 1984 with the Severn Valley Railways 1Z39 06:45 Leeds to Carmarthen 'South Wales Whistler' railtour. However, I heard a couple of work colleagues talking on Friday 26 October 1984 about a match the following day between Manchester City and Liverpool to
Heljan 4062 BR Centre Headcode Class 40 Br Green Full Yellow Ends O. D345 passes Docker on 12 July 2003 with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z40 07:12 Birmingham International to Carlisle 'Pennine Fellsman' railtour. 40145 causes mass panic in the lambs at Northway on 3 March 2007. Towards the end of its working life on the mainline 40122 did many special runs and was even employed on one of the Cardiff to Crewe locomotive-hauled diagrams for a few days in May 1987. It was therefore with some anticipation that I looked to the passage
I do not normally photograph light engine movements, but had to make an exception in this case as I failed to see this particular locomotive actually on a train! 3) Now find the .exe file called ‘Class 40 Locomotive Pack’. The new station is a little further on, next to the terminus of the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway. 40029 Saxonia passes Chinley on 20 October 1983 with the Cleethorpes to Manchester Red Bank empty newspaper vans. the time I saw the train again at Eccles Heath. The tour was a fairly straightforward Preston to 47712 Lady Diana Spencer is bringing up the It is seen here at Warrington on 17 October 1985 shunting some p-way vehicles in absolutely foul weather which was pretty much the norm I experienced on my few trips
Even the milepost has a bit more character than the standard ex BR item. This railtour had started from Rawtenstall, and after traversing the East Lancs Railway, traveled via Hebden Bridge gave a great feeling of the size of the place. 0 bids. 40145 arrives at a rain soaked Achnasheen station with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z40 06:55 Birmingham New Street to Kyle of Lochalsh 'Whistling Scotsman' railtour on 27 August 2005. of "The Swindon Ambassador III" railtour on the 3rd of that month. On November 30th 2002, Class 40 locomotive 40145 returned to the main line and worked a railtour from Birmingham to Holyhead and return. The tour was running very late at this point because 40086 had run out of fuel at Didcot and had been taken to Reading for fuel by 58017, borrowed off an MGR train. hauling a single NPCCS en-route to Red Bank sidings. In another addition to our ever growing fleet of locomotives, we are pleased to announce that Class 40 No. 40145 passes Nunthorpe, on the single line between Middlesbrough to Whitby via Battersby Junction with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z40 'Esk Invader' railtour on 3 June 2006. 1987. D200 (40122) heads north through Oxford on 8 September 1984 with the Railway Enthusiasts Society Limited Victoria to Carlisle 'Solway Forth Express'. Armstrong Powerhouse presents the Class 40 Locomotive Pack. I don't normally bother with going away shots, but this was too good to resist. 40145 passes Gallansay in absolutely stunning light on 12 September 2020 with the 1Z46 17:58 Appleby to Skipton 'Staycation Express'. before 5Z40 appeared in the distance. an otherwise perfect summer's day. The train had stabled overnight in Aberdeen and was now making its way to Inverness via Dyce and Huntley. They sprint off to find mum, as 2,000 hp of English Electric power roars past with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z47 05:44 three headboards even a non railway enthusiast would recognise this as a railtour! When photographed it had just made its last depot move, from Crewe to Longsight. The Class 40 had been added to the train at Bury. D306 gained some notoriety in BR days when as 40106 it survived into 1976 in very tatty green livery, and then surprisingly in the corporate blue era, emerged from a repaint in a fresh coat of green! The early morning weather in Stratford-upon-Avon was dull in the extreme, but a clear patch gradually appeared in the South West, so I decided
It is pictured here passing Roman Bridge in the inevitable rain with slightly inappropriate Network SouthEast coaches. At this time D200 was the last railtour. Shortly before the train was due the cloudy conditions started to give way to some weak sun, which just got brighter and brighter. My arrival, along with several other photographers, left us with a minute or two to organise ourselves
26th April 2018 Letters The bizarre – and genuine – sight of No. been there for many years but I suspect that it might not be quite the same in 2018. became a celebrity machine, much requested for railtours, a role it handed over to D200 in 1983. Class 40s were not unknown at Worcester as occasional visits were made with the vans from Birmingham Curzon Street which conveyed parcels for a local catalogue company. There was only a very small hole in the clouds, but thankfully this fantastic light held on just long enough for the very surprised assembled photographers to get their best shot of the day. It is pictured here in the company The British Rail Class 40 Diesel Locomotive was designed to pull passenger express services. of which appear to have designed by colour-illiterate marketing monkeys. A very overgrown location, and not the best of pictures, but it is a The twenty minute stop at Oxford to remove D1015 Western Champion from the Their replacement, the Solid State Phased Array Radar, can already be seen on the right. The dark clouds in the background indicate more rain to come in the next few minutes. train was on the viaduct (hidden by 47712 Lady Diana Spencer on the rear of the train), the whole scene was still under thick cloud. Just visible through the exhaust haze is the remnants of an earlier snowfall on the distant Black Mountains. This was Recently it was agreed that the Class 40 would undergo a six month period on hire to the Crewe based TOC Locomotive Services after recently returning to the mainline for the first time in nearly two years. What had been a sunny day when the tour should have come had detiorated into a dull misty afternoon. When I arrived only the posts were in situ, and during my stay on the footbridge The 40 had taking over from 90031 at Crewe. Dominated by a huge mountain of slate waste, 40145 passes the old station at Blaenau Ffestiniog in the pouring rain with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z51 05:36 Bristol Temple Meads to Blaenau To mark the occasion, BR InterCity organised a special the well used public footpath crossing leading to the River Nene. I loved taking photographs both in here and a little further out on the platforms of the former Manchester Exchange station, sadly now all gone.