When I've got this entry down I can put the instructions to the central-heating boiler away, because the core details are written on the back of its warranty envelope - along with the addresses of some RMWebbers! - is that you???!!!!

Haymarket became synonymous with the EE Type 4 over two decades' faithful service, it received 19 examples from new. Displacing A4s and the like from the Aberdeen expresses was just one of their party-pieces. On the Waverley Route, they established themselves as reliable and prolific performers. However, like Class 25, the picture was a complex one, with local engines working out-and-home on captive diagrams, but vast numbers particularly of London Midland engines usurping Black Fives and appearing on inter-regional freights including the Bathgate car trains.

The two batches were D260-266 and D357-368, delivered in February and March 1960 and between August and December 1961 respectively. Apart from D368 that spent a week on loan to Gateshead in March '68 the entire batch stayed intact at 64B until D363 left for Eastfield in the June where she stayed for two years.

So with the exception of 7 loco-months, Class 40 provided the backbone of Haymarket's main line mixed traffic fleet throughout the diesel period of the Waverley route, and 18 outlived the line still based at 64B.

At this point it all gets a bit hazy, of course. 260-66 were built as disc fitted locos with nose end doors but were converted to square-corner central headcodes in the mid sixties. A couple had received BFYE before January '69, others full yellow ends over their original green, and later pictures show the arrival of round-corner replacement headcodes on some locos.

The later locos were centre headcode from new, and GSYP held sway as the predominant livery from then until after the line closed. Haymarket Class 40 liveries and the headcode differences within 260-266 remain one of the least clear aspects of the Waverley domestic fleet, not helped by uncaptioned photos which actually feature 52A or 12A engines, or others from further afield.

Photos are reasonably plentiful of both local types and their ER/ LMR counterparts at work on the route. 64B's Forties were reasonably common on the Class 2s and 4s, they are reputed to have handled the Waverley itself (1S64 and family), and could reasonably have been expected to feature on the heavy overnight parcels traffic, although there is no evidence of this to hand. Along with the Claytons principally, they also worked tracklifting trains during 1970-71.