RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted September 20, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 20, 2022 7 hours ago, Halvarras said: Time to post the other northerly five I mentioned..... 245 waiting the off at Newcastle 28/5/73 - this was one of the few to get the old serif style numbers on blue livery. Three days from June and the steam heating's on? Must have still been chilly oop north 🙂: A couple of 40s - 40048 & 40074 - basking in the sun at York on 20/11/76........I got there from Kings Cross, anyone want to hazard a guess at what hauled the train?! 🤔😉 It was standing behind me while I took these photos, was way off its normal territory, and is still nearby today...... And further up over the border, 40047 at Aberdeen on 7/5/77: And 40062 - one of the Scottish batch modified from disc to centre headcodes - at Dundee the same day: This was the No 2 end which later acquired a yellow-painted headcode panel with marker lights - or was it like this at both ends? Also the square-cornered boxes were not fitted to all seven modified locos, I believe a couple - D261/65 (40061/65)? - had rounded corners........but perhaps they started out square and were modified later? I'm clearly not an expert on Class 40s! 40062 appears to be missing its MU jumpers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted September 20, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 20, 2022 1 hour ago, rodent279 said: 40062 appears to be missing its MU jumpers. That was the standard condition for ScR allocated locos, along with removal of the inner sandboxes. Something to do with bridge loads and route availability I think. Re steam heating - I think the rule was that all trains were to be heated outside of the proscribed 'no heat' season, which probably started in June sometime. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinsley-toton Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 5 hours ago, rodent279 said: Was it 47077, which is currently in residence at the NYMR? Or western D1023 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony Jenkinson Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 'H' Hello! 1023 'Western Fusilier' - from and back to KX! (I guessed - correctly I hope - but have confirmed the details on the excellent 'Six Bells Junction' website:- Western Locomotive Association's 'Western Talisman' rail tour. I missed all the fuss about the 'Westerns' but my enthusiasm had been re-invigorated in a couple of months earlier that year when I discovered the 'Deltics'! Best Wishes from Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Yep, that's it - D1023 'Western Fusilier' on the WLA's 'Western Talisman' tour 👍🙂! This was the only Western tour I travelled on towards the end, although I photographed many of the others. 47077's nameplates were constructed the same way as D1023's, if that's a small consolation! Anyway, back to Class 40s..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted September 21, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2022 (edited) Class 40s were rare beasts indeed in the Bristol area in the 1970s, but the most likely workings were on NE-SW services when the normal motive power of peaks or class 47s were not available. I recall several workings in the period 1974-9, but alas missed them all. This one cropped up on eBay a few months ago with copyright which I now own. 40024 seen waiting to leave Bristol Temple Meads with the 1M26 12.45 Weymouth-Derby Saturday 30th June 1979. not a sighting I’d heard of in the period I was an active spotter. In the early 1980s the 3S15 Bristol-Sighthill parcels was rerouted over the marches line, and was a regular 40 diagram- alas missed all of them as girlfriend took precedence. They were regular visitors at Severn Tunnel junction, of which I saw a few too. Neil Edited September 21, 2022 by Downendian Edit wrong number provided with slide 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
balders Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 (edited) 11 hours ago, Downendian said: Class 40s were rare beasts indeed in the Bristol area in the 1970s, but the most likely workings were on NE-SW services when the normal motive power of peaks or class 47s were not available. I recall several workings in the period 1974-9, but alas missed them all. This one cropped up on eBay a few months ago with copyright which I now own. 40026 seen waiting to leave Bristol Temple Meads with the 1M26 12.45 Weymouth-Derby Saturday 30th June 1979. not a sighting I’d heard of in the period I was an active spotter. In the early 1980s the 3S15 Bristol-Sighthill parcels was rerouted over the marches line, and was a regular 40 diagram- alas missed all of them as girlfriend took precedence. They were regular visitors at Severn Tunnel junction, of which I saw a few too. Neil That's 40024.......she worked a Derby-Weymouth to Bristol on 30th June, and then the 09.02 Paignton-Newcastle back from Bristol at least as far as York. John Wooley has photographed her at Derby on that date with this train (Flickr search) Sharing has been disabled on the photo so I can't link it, but a search on the loco and 1979 will bring it up. 40026 wasn't fitted with rad frost grills at this time which made me dive into the Internet! Regards. Guy Edited September 21, 2022 by balders 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold jcarta Posted September 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2022 (edited) 15 hours ago, balders said: That's 40024.......she worked a Derby-Weymouth to Bristol on 30th June, and then the 09.02 Paignton-Newcastle back from Bristol at least as far as York. John Wooley has photographed her at Derby on that date with this train (Flickr search) Sharing has been disabled on the photo so I can't link it, but a search on the loco and 1979 will bring it up. 40026 wasn't fitted with rad frost grills at this time which made me dive into the Internet! Regards. Guy By John Wooley Edited September 22, 2022 by jcarta 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 334 Balshaw Lane 1973 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted November 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2022 (edited) The Class 40 Preservation Society’s D345 at the head of Pathfinder Railtours ‘The Whistling Geordie’, returning from Newcastle and passing through Brighouse on 12th November 2022, working as 1Z42, Newcastle to Burton-On-Trent. Edited November 14, 2022 by 4630 replace the photo. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted November 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2022 Following on from my post yesterday, here's the outward working of the 'Whistling Geordie' on 12th November 2022, 1Z40 Burton-On-Trent to Newcastle, approaching Heaton Lodge East Junction. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 D345 at it again, northbound through Chesterfield yesterday on a Swindon-Newcastle special, "The North Eastern Christmas Markets". The 40 came on at Derby, and there's a 57 at the back. Maybe a dozen photters on the footbridge, including one who had come up from Birmingham. Also, plenty of speed restriction signs to choose from! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 4, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2022 (edited) On 21/09/2022 at 11:02, Downendian said: Class 40s were rare beasts indeed in the Bristol area in the 1970s, but the most likely workings were on NE-SW services when the normal motive power of peaks or class 47s were not available. I recall several workings in the period 1974-9, but alas missed them all. This one cropped up on eBay a few months ago with copyright which I now own. 40024 seen waiting to leave Bristol Temple Meads with the 1M26 12.45 Weymouth-Derby Saturday 30th June 1979. not a sighting I’d heard of in the period I was an active spotter. In the early 1980s the 3S15 Bristol-Sighthill parcels was rerouted over the marches line, and was a regular 40 diagram- alas missed all of them as girlfriend took precedence. They were regular visitors at Severn Tunnel junction, of which I saw a few too. Neil Once cycled the 12.5 miles from Ombersley to Abbotswood only to arrive not quite in time to cop a disc headcode 40 on a northbound…. Grrr!!! Was just too far away to read the number and there was no-one else there to ask what it was. Only one I ever saw there…. Edited December 4, 2022 by Phil Bullock 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 40180 Ais Gill 1982 by Bill Watson 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 A nice clear shot of D326 in the old Aylesbury Town branch bay platform at Cheddington on the morning of 8th August 1963, it had been shunted into there and impounded by the police after the infamous mail train robbery further up the line at Bridego Bridge a few hours earlier... 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 40001 on the line to Donnington MOD 1984 by Mike Hemming 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 (edited) Photo by John Atkinson : 40 062 at Perth on Tuesday 16th June 1981... Photo by Tim Walton : D329 at Tyseley on 26th June 1968... Edited March 6, 2023 by Rugd1022 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 Anyone got a picture of 40104 with it's unofficial name "Warrior" NOT painted over? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 40044 Manchester Piccadilly 1984 by Mark Slater 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I never realised that the 40s used to have a ladder on the nose. D231 departs Manchester Exchange with "The Comet" 1960 by Jmj 2009 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 18 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: I never realised that the 40s used to have a ladder on the nose. Drivers refused to operate the windscreen wipers, they weren't part of operating a steam locomotive; the ladders were for the secondman to climb out of the end doors, up the ladder and wipe debris off the driver's window when the train was moving. Then it was agreed that the wiper operation switch could be moved to the secondman's side and he would be allowed to turn on the wipers. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinsley-toton Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 20 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: I never realised that the 40s used to have a ladder on the nose. D231 departs Manchester Exchange with "The Comet" 1960 by Jmj 2009 They didn't last long and that's why some 40s have 4 bolts where the ladder used to be secured to. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 35 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: I never realised that the 40s used to have a ladder on the nose. D231 departs Manchester Exchange with "The Comet" 1960 by Jmj 2009 Wonder why it has parcels/express freight headcode? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Pannier Tank Posted March 7, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Titan said: Wonder why it has parcels/express freight headcode? Headcode for 'empty coaching stock'? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Pannier Tank said: Headcode for 'empty coaching stock'? Possibly, but then it ought to be captioned "Stock from the Comet" rather than "The Comet" - they can't both be right! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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