Class 40s in the North West (Calder Valley Line, Crewe, etc) 1983

Class 40s at Manchester Victoria, Littleborough, Northwhich, Crewe, Newton Heath, etc. 40 093, 40 068, 40 158, 40 028, 40 019

[@Meldforever]

Superb quality!! Like the 80s music on the radio too 😁

[@spectrumanalyzer3093]

I spent many hours at Clegg Hall and Smithy Bridge spotting in the 70's and early 80's. I lived at Smallbridge nearby and I can still hear class 40's thumping away as I laid in bed during clear summer nights and that would be from a couple of miles away. Manchester Vic was also a great location. I remember how the freight drivers would accelerate as fast as possible from a standing start in order to get a run up to Miles Platting, couplings snatching badly as they did. The whole country was like a giant preserved railway back in those days! Thanks a lot for posting.

[@Georgeasaurus2001]

Everything on here is better than anything today, sad but very true

[@nottudyug]

Without doubt the class 37s and the awesome 40s ruled the roost for me. Spent many a weekend bashing in the late 70s/early 80s. Brilliant quality Video considering how old they are!

[@rmwebsimonmoore]

Brilliant videos Aureol40012 They've been fantastic in researching my new model railway based on Victoria & Newton Heath. Happy memories of seeing peaks & blue grey era locos just wish i had managed to see the class 40's. Thanks again for the share.

[@tallyhochaps3216]

Superb video, I remember the Crewe 'death row' of withdrawn locos including 40106 amongst the 25's and other 40's just south of the station, that was one hot summer for 'bashing '40's!

[@magicgeezer]

Absolutely fabulous my good friend! and superb quality! I did notice from 1:50 it took 22 seconds for the signal to turn red!

[@highdownmartin]

MagicGeezer you could put almost the whole train past and still get away with it! Fab stuff

[@petercollingwood4108]

Nice signal to spad 😂

[@class45peak]

Absolutey brilliant video.lovely locomotives and multiple units .great thanks .

[@aureol40012]

Lancashire born and bred until 1978 when I had a brief stay in Yorkshire (Hebden Bridge) until 1984. So both really!

[@Bevoin1970]

I live close to a railway line, sadly closed today but looking back with hindsight I wished I'd taken video of all the trains that passed by. Thing is at the time all these diesels were such a common and every day sight that the idea of filming them seemed ridiculous..... how wrong I was!! that's hindsight for you.....

[@duxberry1958]

A load of my mates from Warrington were doing up that old coach in Northwich shed

[@duxberry1958]

Lovely Stuff ....

[@aureol40012]

Thank you very much mate. I actually sell a 5 DVD set of the unedited footage if you are interested. Yeah, its Northwich. And 40 028 was my first one for haulage as a basher.

[@nigelterry9299]

Happy days indeed......

[@thehoff1982]

does any1 have any footage of trains on the wcml liverpool branch around the early-mid 80s? i grew up watching the trains in runcorn.

[@michaeldelz]

love your vids, have got the 3 whistling giants dvds. do you think any more will come along? wondering did you get to Birkenhead or Liverpool?

[@RICKD790]

@britishbulldog5505 too prone to bogie fractures I think

[@silverbullet1759]

Why were class 40s decommissioned before class 37s? I would have thought that they are better.

[@jprp999]

40's were older, heavier and had a lower max tractive effort than 37's, they were still great loco's that could have served a lot longer, as could many other classes.

[@beeble2003]

I think it's partly that a single class 40 wasn't enough for a lot of things, but a pair of them was over-powered and expensive to run. Conversely, a single 37 (or a pair of class 20s) could cover a lot of the trains that a 40 could pull, and a pair of 37s was a useful amount of power in its own right.

[@taffboyslim]

30 years ago... ffs!