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Blue Class 40's in the late 60's


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I'm trying to find the identities of any Class 40's that had been painted into BR Blue from about 1967 onward's.  I'm modelling Ais Gill in the late steam era and I really fancy one of the new Graham Farish Class 40's, one (or more) in green but a single one in blue.

 

Any help would be great.

 

Julian Sprott

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216 and 233 were the LMR Royal train locos in the late 60s and were usually well bulled up - and blue

 

See Brush veteran's excellent photostream for images of them (admittedly dirty!) - and a few others

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/59835095@N02/albums/72157627818981963

 

Phil

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D248 and D240 were early into blue in mid/late 1967.

 

https://flic.kr/p/dfPRGy

 

https://flic.kr/p/9vyJLZ

 

and slightly later was D250, no link yet.

 

Edit: D245, an LMR machine, was I think second into blue in July 1967,

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/7614539402/

 

and D270 slightly earlier sometime before 4 June 1967, which makes is pretty likely contender for the Pelaw photo.

 

https://flic.kr/p/avFfJW

 

5624545793_6377bbbc19_b.jpgD270 York Summer 1967 by Burleyonian, on Flickr

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These are the earliest photos I have of Class 40s in blue.

 

 

Any with illegible numbers are taken from Dad's notes (they are his photos).  

 

 

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Pilmoor Class 40 D286 down goods June 67 J926

 

 

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Pilmoor Class 40 D240 down freight Jan 68 J1200

 

 

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Pilmoor Class 40 D251 down ex pass June 68 J1324

 

 

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Retford Class 40 277 down parcels Sept 69 J1994

 

 

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These are the earliest photos I have of Class 40s in blue.

 

 

Any with illegible numbers are taken from Dad's notes (they are his photos).  

 

 

attachicon.gifPilmoor Class 40 D286 down goods June 67 J926.jpg

Pilmoor Class 40 D286 down goods June 67 J926

 

 

attachicon.gifPilmoor Class 40 D240 down freight Jan 68 J1200.jpg

Pilmoor Class 40 D240 down freight Jan 68 J1200

 

 

attachicon.gifPilmoor Class 40 D251 down ex pass June 68 J1324.jpg

Pilmoor Class 40 D251 down ex pass June 68 J1324

 

 

attachicon.gifRetford Class 40 277 down parcels Sept 69 J1994.jpg

Retford Class 40 277 down parcels Sept 69 J1994

 

 

David

 

Love the picture of D251 with a full rake of blue and grey Mk I's.

 

Julian Sprott

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You must have an excellent indexing system Dave!

 

Brilliant....

 

Phil

 

 A bit off topic but the catalogue and indexes, all handwritten straight after the slides came back after processing, take up over 3 feet of shelf space.

 

Also each image prepared for the web has a caption as part of the file name which can then be searched on the PC - much more quickly than using the paper records.

 

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Russell - do you have a date for 340 ?

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