An hour of class 40s 1983-84. A compilation of the best bits.

[@Vortigan07]

It's a funny thing, so called "spotters" have been at the butt end of more than few ridiculing comments over many years but the films they shot are an ever increasingly important historical record of a time that's fast working its way towards being gone from living memory. I'm sure that a great many of us are grateful to you and others like you!

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Absolutely! 👍🏻👏🏻

[@tjordulf]

I concur!

[@kevinfowkes2327]

Often it's the mundane bits that turn out to be the most rare. For example there is a class 123 DMU at New Mills at the start of the video, with its distinctive rasping engine noise. They were all withdrawn in 83/84 without anybody taking much notice and none were preserved, so I doubt there is any more video of them on KZbin, at least with sound. Class 40 footage isn't that rare as their last years were meticulously recorded.

[@chrisasher3494]

Brings back memories..great film thanks for sharing.

[@hellfiretvmh]

2 minutes and 50 seconds in, the flailing is Hellfire! It’s how life used to be! Brilliant film thank you. Class 40’s as I remembered them!

[@justinobrien3593]

I love this video I could just imagine myself being stood there now with my note pad out jotting numbers down as a teenager or even now! The days of carefree stressfree happy days of great locomotive on our railway networks I could watch this on a loop and I wouldn't get bored of watching it at all! So many happy memories in these videos.🥰

[@bellers13]

Great footage, great memories of my younger days on the railways, there were so many cracking classes and loco's, these beauts were awesome though both look and sounds

[@vsolou]

Yeah these class 40s were a top notch in my opinion but I don't think there being used now😞

[@tracya4087]

was nt they just

[@highdownmartin]

I just LOVE the departure from Sheffield at 24 mins in. Zero emissions!

[@michaeltaylor1219]

Me too, awesome sound 👌🏻

[@taxitoloei2055]

Even as an ex Peak basher, have to say the 40s were magnificent locos. The footage of the one leaving Piccadilly after the railtour is something else - its almost as if the loco itself is alive and is acknowledging and saying thanks to its huge legion of fans. Super video.

[@aureol40012]

Great description. Thank you.

[@rickmeyrick4357]

Excellent & Emotional, i lived these beautys all my childhood until my Teens, great work !

[@dieseldave3879]

5:56 That 40 on the scrap train was going all out considering the amount of exhaust! 🚂👍

[@nigelbarlow3506]

I’m late to the party! Loved this class - agree that this video is excellent and brings back so many long forgotten memories of life in 80’s Madchester!!!

[@NDSKOSTHEORY]

Some great footage from the Blue era.... 40057 crossing with D200 is time perfect, very lucky indeed.....I started haulage bashing in 1979 although I had been a spotter for several years previous and traveled the country visiting depots and photographed virtually every class from 01-56 but had a preference to EE built locomotives (55,37 & 40) and have all but 12 class 40s in my photo collection...... I also had 118 for haulage and this really brings back many good memories, thanks for sharing this wonderful selection, top man !!!! 👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙏🙏🙏😎

[@tracya4087]

your making my day mate . thank you so very much

[@michaelhawkins4621]

Served my apprenticeship on the railway 79 to 83. Thank you for the upload , so many memories, good and not so!

[@justinobrien3593]

Love the shots at Manchester Piccadilly of the 40 thrashing out from the final 40 hauled train at 36 mins.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@spectrumanalyzer3093]

One of my favourite KZbins. Thanks for posting, especially the shots taken from Clegg Hall bridge, I had many happy days there and at Smithy Bridge level crossing in the late 70's and early 80's

[@aureol40012]

Thank you so much, I spent many happy hours at those places with my father too. It all seems so long ago now, but even for me after so many views watching these videos brings those days flooding back.

[@andrewrichmond5720]

@@aureol40012 I've got all of these programmes, which are now very much prized possessions (bought on EBay, I think - quite a few years ago). Some superb material, + many priceless memories of halcyon days working with the unforgettable class 40's.

[@aureol40012]

@@andrewrichmond5720 glad you still enjoy them matey!

[@richardsanders4624]

Happy Days..! Loved 40's "Whistling" Thank You 😀👍

[@andrewchaston3178]

40106 STAMPED FOREVER IN MY HEART

[@petercope4360driverpete]

What a great show, every shot got interest from it's first frame, the start, close up stuff, follow throughs giving good going away shots, very evocative of the period, really enjoyed it, thank you very much, Pete

[@thomasshepard6030]

This brought back memories I was a fireman at eastfield traction depot Glasgow 1974 drove many class 37 class 27s and 20s from triple headed 37s on coal trains to passenger queen st to Oban on the west highland line loved the job hated the shifts

[@clairebennett9104]

"Not Bad" "I've Seen Worse" "At Least You're All... *Clean"*

[@stephenpowell5912]

Great locos the 40s, Great sound from the Whistlers,Pure 40 Muscle 💪 Power ❤

[@ojarskrumins8476]

What makes me wonder is how they run through the night. Those locos does not have proper high beam.

[@justinobrien3593]

A class 20+40 sound good together they kind of neatly drown each other out in whistling lol 😆

[@clivegreatorex6138]

Nice one Jake - some awesome sights and sounds there.

[@aureol40012]

Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed them, I owe my dad a lot just for this alone! Hope you are well.

[@reach90002c5]

thank you great memories of a fantastic time in my life

[@tracya4087]

hey me too

[@justinobrien3593]

Top locomotive I remember them as a kid at guidebridge yard near Ashton-under-lyne it was a storage yard for coal wagons/locomotives class 40s 76s 25s 37s were always on there but the 40s always stood out due to there distinctive whistling engines I was about 8 when i first got into railways so that was 1979-80 to me a 40 is a prototype class 37 with an extra wheel different engine! I love this video especially the shots of Manchester Victoria I live close by to it but now it looks unrecognisable they spoilt it in the late 90s building that arena above the station? I watch this video quite often 10/10 for sound quality and picture quality.😎

[@aureol40012]

Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. 👍

[@justinobrien3593]

@@aureol40012 hi Jake you did some fabulous filming there and the quality of the video is the best 80s video I've seen so far, you must have been using some expensive video camera at that time and have you done anymore videos on uk locomotives as I would love to see them thanks for putting this on you-tube as I watch it at least once a week and it just puts me right there in the video at Manchester Victoria or stalybridge great filming definitely 10/10 for satisfaction.

[@aureol40012]

@Goldfish put the “kettle”’ on, there is a good chap 😂

[@stephenclark7013]

My grand parents lived on Audenshaw lane opposite the Hanging gate pub their garden overlooked the railway I can remember steam trains climbing up from Gorton station and class 25 class 40 and 76 electrics hauling coal trains and never mind Dukinfield wagon works . Fridays were always the best as all the light engines made their way back to Guide Bridge .It’s all a shadow of its former self the lonely metal stantions for the catenary wires of the woodhead line tell a sorry tale even now 50 years later it still makes me sad .Still that’s progress ?

[@danielsellers8707]

They sound more like a pair of 20s than a 37; only ever seen 1x Class 40 working and that was D200 on its final run to the NRM in York. Found out that some of the Peak District limestone trains were 2x 40s...

[@AndreiTupolev]

Certainly some of the best filming I've seen of the class, and remarkable quality considering it's all over 35 years old. Very pleasing first scene there. Got a Class 123 DMU in too!

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

Found my discs of this footage the other day, so am really pleased. My son, when a lot younger, used to love the scene with 40152 from 1:52 to 2:52 especially with the young lads hanging out of the windows and whooping at the camera. I'm guessing the bloke who jumps in and out of the cab had urgent need of a wazz at the station 🤣

[@aureol40012]

Ah, glad you and your lad enjoyed them. The bit with 152 is one of my favourite bits of my dad’s footage, and that’s me in the red jumper on the platform when it comes in.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

​@@aureol40012 thanks Jake, I'll look out for you. Absolutely fascinating footage & a real time capsule from 40yrs ago as it is now. I'd have been around 12/13 in 1983 when this all begins

[@48firefox]

for he's a jolly good fellow , and so say all of us! how many of that lot reconise themselves today!

[@justinobrien3593]

Love the shots at stalybridge station 40034 (D224) on a cold day on a Scarborough/york service wow I miss those days as I used to live in stalybridge, and we now got class 68s loco hauled trains but they will never be as popular as the 40s/45s/47s we has on the transpennine services from liverpool to york/Scarborough wish I could get in a time machine and go back and stay in the 1980s forever.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@andrewmartell6155]

Brilliant Jake. Absolutely loving all these new LONGER uploads. Fantastic reminder of better times. Any chance you could think of doing a DVD of this to sell. I, for one, would definitely buy it. Love the shots around Man Vic. Keep them coming. Top job.

[@aureol40012]

I sell 5 DVD sets on eBay.

[@aureol40012]

See here matey ebay.us/3cP3bI?cmpnId=5338273189

[@andrewmartell6155]

Hi Jake Thanks for getting back to me. Seen DVD's now on eBay. An order will be "Whistling" its way over to you shortly. All the best, Andy.

[@JohnPW22]

I keep saying to myself is that me on the platform there..... what memories! Great clips!

[@aureol40012]

Glad you enjoyed it! I sell the full footage on eBay on DVDs.

[@AndreiTupolev]

And what a brilliantly timed shot at Ais Gill, wasn't that, with 40057 slogging upgrade just as D200 comes round the corner

[@aureol40012]

Yeah, my dad landed on his feet with that one!

[@TransportMemories]

Absolutely hellfire compilation :) Great to see 40s in the landscape and all those freight workings. What was the double-headed working at 40mins load14!!! including the two InterCity coaches. And D200 on a tour that follows - is that Miles Platting? Excellent memories captured for posterity!

[@IanBlack66]

Brilliant footage

[@justinobrien3593]

Love the beginning of this video a 40 pulling a failed peak class 45 monster's these locos I cant wait to see 40145 again at crewe it's on hire and floating around crewe area on various duties I've not been down yet but I'm going next week Balls to lockdown I ain't doing anymore prison in my house we only live once!!!😎

[@a.m.armstrong8354]

Good on you man!

[@blakescrewe]

Used to hear them for miles around Crewe in the 1980s

[@no1reallycaresabout2]

13:57 Stunning locale; where is this?

[@aureol40012]

Saddleworth, heading from Leeds to Manchester.

[@Isochest]

Looking back they might as well have kept steam in use until full electrification! A lot of the diesels were not much less smelly

[@michaelsandford1015]

Very good filming

[@stenut2895]

Splendid

[@graemesalt283]

Utterly epic.

[@bigdave12345567890]

watching this i noticed the 40 at around 10 mins had no battery box / fuel tank .. ????

[@aureol40012]

Boiler water tanks. Removed when the boilers were removed during works visits.

[@joeconcertshd3451]

Clip at 2:40 was that Doctor Death filming?

[@rcooke459]

This engine has always been a favourite of mine. Our house used to back onto the St Pancras mainline , between Cricklewood and Hendon and as a child i remember running along the adjacent alley trying to out run coal trains. Excuse my ignorance but can someone tell me why there are another set of wheels forward of the triple set of wheels. In contrast to a class 37 for example. As you can tell i know very little about trains.

[@aureol40012]

They are unpowered pony wheels. They were specified due to weight but BR later realised they were unnecessary.

[@rcooke459]

jake atkinson thank you Jake

[@nialloconnell5895]

Great stuff, my favourite loco by far, its interesting how they lasted so long on the network, so big and heavy and under powered, a class 40 pulling 4/5 coaches was never going to make money !!

[@benconway9010]

When you say underpowered?..how so?

[@stevelomas4119]

@@benconway9010 Power to weight ratio...they weighed 133 tonnes for only 2,000 bhp.

[@andrewoverton5170]

But you need to bear in mind the norm when they were introduced, in the 1950s. What seemed underpowered in later years was not so at that time when you consider the all-in weight of a large steam loco, plus tender, and the power they were putting out (less linearly, in hammer blows, so prone to slipping). You also need to consider the need in that era for a heavy locomotive weight to provide sufficient brake force for unfitted freight trains, something which more powerful but lighter diesels ended up being poorly suited to work, hence the wasteful need for brake tenders.

[@nottudyug]

@@andrewoverton5170 BUT....probably why the class 37s had possibly the ideal power/weight ratio and ultimately lasted a lot longer on the network. Another awesome machine. Both the 37s & 40s were my favourite locos for different reasons.

[@N330AA]

It's like a 37 with an extra wheel

[@mikecrowther8131]

Jake, what is the location at 43:00, please?

[@mikecrowther8131]

And 45:45?

[@aureol40012]

Bradford and Warrington.

[@mikecrowther8131]

@@aureol40012 Ta

[@justinobrien3593]

Did anyone notice 40158 with the odd colour headcode boxes one yellow one black at 1.00 lol 😅

[@tracya4087]

yes . i remember her well in the scrap line at springs branch with a line of class 25 s

[@tracya4087]

@Goldfish well it was nt really . even back in the day . we just did not know what sarcastic little shites we would meet years later

[@tracya4087]

@Goldfish aint that bright then

[@mikecrowther8131]

Superb, Jake! I was wondering what the location was on 26 minutes, with the Hadfield set. Initially I thought Godley but is it Ashburys? I’ll kick meself!

[@aureol40012]

Ashburys

[@nigelkthomas9501]

I mourn the old Manchester Victoria! 😢 Why was it f* up so much in 1994?

[@julianmoody9768]

The best br beasts

[@markharris5861]

@Anonymous like your failed swastiki

[@michaelsandford1015]

Magic

[@1974silverboy]

Buckets.... I love buckets

[@benconway9010]

So what year did the 40 actually get withdrawn from service? Cos I thought it was the 70s they were withdrawn? But you got them up to 86?

[@aureol40012]

The blue ones went in January 1985, D200 (green one) went in 1988.

[@marciebalme588]

very good

[@antmerritt]

Yes! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👊

[@Isochest]

We need to bring back the mixed goods train. Cargo is not homogenous

[@1Z50railtourinfo]

Back in the day when bashers could be bashers!!

[@andrewf1873]

Either we came from D261 or somewhere else. Who knows?

[@IronHorseRailways]

So.. what's with that silly wave people do out of the windows?

[@aureol40012]

Bellowing! Awesome isn’t it.

[@IronHorseRailways]

@@aureol40012 not even slightly 😂🤣

[@davidchadwick7559]

My lords

[@masterfarr8265]

has anyone seen my hat?

[@justinobrien3593]

I think there is only me who has got any interest in these locomotives on this page as I think there's only me who has made a comment in about a century!!!🥳

[@tracya4087]

hey love the forties from wigan springs branch

[@walterdavey3276]

I love the 40s. Makes me think back to when I was at school.

[@petercollingwood4108]

Copyright 😂😂

[@aureol40012]

I don’t know much about copyright, but as it’s my footage where is the problem?

[@frenchsteam7356]

Excellent shots -spoilt by idiots hanging out of windows!

[@MontyCantsin5]

🥱

[@stevenweasel2678]

Not Really