This video was originally done for the CFPS to sell at the Upperby open day in 1986.
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@Vortigan07 Жыл бұрын
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!
@nigelkthomas95014 ай бұрын
Absolutely! 👍🏻👏🏻
@tjordulf2 ай бұрын
I concur!
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
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.🥰
@FHJOttersbergАй бұрын
🥰 Glad I've witnessed the BR diesels, even the Class 52 (D1009 "Western Invader" at Reading in 1973, when I was 5 years old). Thank you ever so much for filming the "Whistlers". Good memories. Greetings from The Netherlands, Erik-Jan👋
@taxitoloei20553 ай бұрын
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.
@aureol400123 ай бұрын
Great description. Thank you.
@bellers134 жыл бұрын
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
@vsolou3 жыл бұрын
Yeah these class 40s were a top notch in my opinion but I don't think there being used now😞
@tracya40873 жыл бұрын
was nt they just
@chrisasher3494 Жыл бұрын
Brings back memories..great film thanks for sharing.
@highdownmartin4 жыл бұрын
I just LOVE the departure from Sheffield at 24 mins in. Zero emissions!
@michaeltaylor12193 жыл бұрын
Me too, awesome sound 👌🏻
@NDSKOSTHEORY4 жыл бұрын
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 !!!! 👍🏼🏴🙏🙏🙏😎
@rickmeyrick43573 жыл бұрын
Excellent & Emotional, i lived these beautys all my childhood until my Teens, great work !
@thomasshepard6030 Жыл бұрын
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
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
Love the shots at Manchester Piccadilly of the 40 thrashing out from the final 40 hauled train at 36 mins.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@nigelbarlow3506 Жыл бұрын
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!!!
@tracya40874 жыл бұрын
your making my day mate . thank you so very much
@stephenpowell59124 жыл бұрын
Great locos the 40s, Great sound from the Whistlers,Pure 40 Muscle 💪 Power ❤
@ojarskrumins84763 жыл бұрын
What makes me wonder is how they run through the night. Those locos does not have proper high beam.
@richardsanders46242 жыл бұрын
Happy Days..! Loved 40's "Whistling" Thank You 😀👍
@michaelhawkins46213 жыл бұрын
Served my apprenticeship on the railway 79 to 83. Thank you for the upload , so many memories, good and not so!
@spectrumanalyzer30932 жыл бұрын
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
@aureol400122 жыл бұрын
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.
@andrewrichmond57202 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@aureol400122 жыл бұрын
@@andrewrichmond5720 glad you still enjoy them matey!
@andrewmartell61554 жыл бұрын
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.
@aureol400124 жыл бұрын
I sell 5 DVD sets on eBay.
@aureol400124 жыл бұрын
See here matey ebay.us/3cP3bI?cmpnId=5338273189
@andrewmartell61554 жыл бұрын
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.
@petercope4360driverpete Жыл бұрын
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
@clairebennett91042 жыл бұрын
"Not Bad" "I've Seen Worse" "At Least You're All... *Clean"*
@andrewchaston3178 Жыл бұрын
40106 STAMPED FOREVER IN MY HEART
@reach90002c54 жыл бұрын
thank you great memories of a fantastic time in my life
@tracya40873 жыл бұрын
hey me too
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
A class 20+40 sound good together they kind of neatly drown each other out in whistling lol 😆
@AndreiTupolev3 жыл бұрын
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!
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
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.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@clivegreatorex6138 Жыл бұрын
Nice one Jake - some awesome sights and sounds there.
@aureol40012 Жыл бұрын
Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed them, I owe my dad a lot just for this alone! Hope you are well.
@48firefox3 жыл бұрын
for he's a jolly good fellow , and so say all of us! how many of that lot reconise themselves today!
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
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.😎
@aureol400123 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. 👍
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@aureol400123 жыл бұрын
@Goldfish put the “kettle”’ on, there is a good chap 😂
@stephenclark7013 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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...
@JohnPW222 жыл бұрын
I keep saying to myself is that me on the platform there..... what memories! Great clips!
@aureol400122 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! I sell the full footage on eBay on DVDs.
@IanBlack664 жыл бұрын
Brilliant footage
@AndreiTupolev3 жыл бұрын
And what a brilliantly timed shot at Ais Gill, wasn't that, with 40057 slogging upgrade just as D200 comes round the corner
@aureol400123 жыл бұрын
Yeah, my dad landed on his feet with that one!
@andrewphippsphillips1455 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
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.armstrong83543 жыл бұрын
Good on you man!
@michaelsandford10154 жыл бұрын
Very good filming
@graemesalt2834 жыл бұрын
Utterly epic.
@Isochest2 жыл бұрын
Looking back they might as well have kept steam in use until full electrification! A lot of the diesels were not much less smelly
@blakescrewe3 жыл бұрын
Used to hear them for miles around Crewe in the 1980s
@mikecrowther81313 жыл бұрын
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!
@aureol400123 жыл бұрын
Ashburys
@nigelkthomas95014 ай бұрын
I mourn the old Manchester Victoria! 😢 Why was it f* up so much in 1994?
@rcooke4594 жыл бұрын
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.
@aureol400124 жыл бұрын
They are unpowered pony wheels. They were specified due to weight but BR later realised they were unnecessary.
@rcooke4594 жыл бұрын
jake atkinson thank you Jake
@MatthewRailways500332 жыл бұрын
Nice video 5⭐👍👍👍😎.I've subscribers to your KZbin channel 👍
@michaelsandford10157 ай бұрын
Magic
@nialloconnell58954 жыл бұрын
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 !!
@benconway90103 жыл бұрын
When you say underpowered?..how so?
@stevelomas41193 жыл бұрын
@@benconway9010 Power to weight ratio...they weighed 133 tonnes for only 2,000 bhp.
@andrewoverton51703 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@N330AA3 жыл бұрын
It's like a 37 with an extra wheel
@julianmoody97684 жыл бұрын
The best br beasts
@markharris58612 жыл бұрын
@Anonymous like your failed swastiki
@no1reallycaresabout2 Жыл бұрын
13:57 Stunning locale; where is this?
@aureol40012 Жыл бұрын
Saddleworth, heading from Leeds to Manchester.
@bigdave123455678908 ай бұрын
watching this i noticed the 40 at around 10 mins had no battery box / fuel tank .. ????
@aureol400128 ай бұрын
Boiler water tanks. Removed when the boilers were removed during works visits.
@benconway90103 жыл бұрын
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?
@aureol400123 жыл бұрын
The blue ones went in January 1985, D200 (green one) went in 1988.
@marciebalme5883 жыл бұрын
very good
@Isochest Жыл бұрын
We need to bring back the mixed goods train. Cargo is not homogenous
@1974silverboy3 жыл бұрын
Buckets.... I love buckets
@1Z50railtourinfo Жыл бұрын
Back in the day when bashers could be bashers!!
@antmerritt4 жыл бұрын
Yes! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👊
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
Did anyone notice 40158 with the odd colour headcode boxes one yellow one black at 1.00 lol 😅
@tracya40873 жыл бұрын
yes . i remember her well in the scrap line at springs branch with a line of class 25 s
@tracya40873 жыл бұрын
@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
@tracya40873 жыл бұрын
@Goldfish aint that bright then
@davidchadwick75593 жыл бұрын
My lords
@andrewf18733 жыл бұрын
Either we came from D261 or somewhere else. Who knows?
@mikecrowther81313 жыл бұрын
Jake, what is the location at 43:00, please?
@mikecrowther81313 жыл бұрын
And 45:45?
@aureol400123 жыл бұрын
Bradford and Warrington.
@mikecrowther81313 жыл бұрын
@@aureol40012 Ta
@justinobrien35933 жыл бұрын
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!!!🥳
@tracya40873 жыл бұрын
hey love the forties from wigan springs branch
@walterdavey32762 жыл бұрын
I love the 40s. Makes me think back to when I was at school.
@masterfarr82652 жыл бұрын
has anyone seen my hat?
@IronHorseRailways2 жыл бұрын
So.. what's with that silly wave people do out of the windows?
@aureol400122 жыл бұрын
Bellowing! Awesome isn’t it.
@IronHorseRailways2 жыл бұрын
@@aureol40012 not even slightly 😂🤣
@petercollingwood41082 жыл бұрын
Copyright 😂😂
@aureol400122 жыл бұрын
I don’t know much about copyright, but as it’s my footage where is the problem?
@frenchsteam7356 Жыл бұрын
Excellent shots -spoilt by idiots hanging out of windows!