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1	Saltly Depot	Even more arround the Country	(5)
2	40 023	Crewe Works	(2)
3	D306 arrives at Peterborough with the 10.42 from Yarwell Junct.	50 Years of the Class 40	(2)
4	Awaiting departure from York.	The Whistling Tynesider	(1)
5	Chester	The Welsh Whistler	(1)

Most Recent Collections

	20th Apr 2008	50 Years of the Class 40 40145 visited the Nene Valley Railway to link up with D306 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Class 40's
	12th Apr 2008	The East Anglian To celebrate 50 years of the English Electric Class 40 pathfinder take 40145 to East Anglia, specifically the East Suffolk Line and Lowestoft. 1Z40 Birmingham New St to lowestoft 1Z41 Lowestoft to Didcot Park Way
	1st Mar 2008	Nene Valley Diesel Gala 2008
	15th Sep 2007	The Buxton Forester
	3rd Mar 2007	The Welsh Central Liner II - Saturday 3rd March, 2007 40145’s first mainline outing for 2007 takes us over the entire length of the scenic Heart of Wales Line.
	8th Oct 2006	Nene Valley Diesel Gala 2006 Another visit to the Nene Valley for some thrash behind 40106.
	3rd Jun 2006	The Esk Valley Invader
	18th Mar 2006	East Lancs. 18/03/2006
	25th Feb 2006	The Welsh Whistler Saturday 25th February saw 40145 take her first mainline outing for 2006. This time from Crewe to Cardiff via Birmingham, Stoke, Manchester, Warrington and Chester. 1Z47 Crewe - Cardiff and 1Z48 Cardiff - Crewe.
	5th Nov 2005	The Capital Crusader
	18th Sep 2005	Nene Valley
	11th Sep 2005	Crewe Works Open Weekend A visit to Crewe works on the Sunday of the open weekend. Non 40 Photos can be seen here - http://dieselandelectric.fotopic.net/
	26th Aug 2005 to 28th Aug 2005	"The Whistling Scotsman" by camera phone Shots from the tour taken on my phone.
	26th Aug 2005 to 28th Aug 2005	The Whistling Scotsman The eleventh mainline outing for 40 145 takes her on a second atempt to reach Kyle of Lochalsh. Starting on Friday from Birmingham to Aberdeen, then Saturday up to Inverness then kyle and back to Inverness. While Sunday takes us back to Birmingham from Inverness. All I can say is, "What an outstanding performance" 145 just gets better and better.
	4th Jun 2005	The Whistling Slater Another outing for 40145, this time from Bristol to Blaenau Ffestiniog then on to holyhead before a storming run back to Bristol. My Lords. 1Z51 05.36 Bristol Temple Meads - Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1Z52 13.26 Blaenau Ffestiniog - Holyhead, 1Z53 16.54 Holyhead - Bristol Temple Meads
	1st Jan 2005	Even more arround the Country
	1st Jan 2005	Crewe Works Some shots from the Chamber of Horrors. 1984
	1st Jan 2005	My Lords! A few bellowing phots
	1st Jan 2005	North Wales Part 2
	26th Dec 2004	On Tour Part 2
	12th Dec 2004	Around The Country Part 3
	10th Oct 2004	Nene Valley Diesel Gala 2004 40106 at the Nene Valley Gala
	1st Oct 2004	SVR Diesel Gala 2004 Shots of 40145 at this years diesel gala on the SVR. Other phots can be seen here - http://dieselandelectric.fotopic.net/
	5th Sep 2004	The 80's A few scanned photos from the 80's
	27th Aug 2004	The Northern Lights The lastest tour by Pathfinder and the CFPS was taking 40145 to Kyle of Lochalsh. However the 40 which took over from 50031 at Preston had to be removed at Carlisle after suffering problems with a cracked turbocharger. 66229 got us to Mossend where 37427 + 37406 took over to Kyle and back where 50031 was waiting for the return leg to Birmingham. The non class 40 photos can be seen here - http://dieselandelectric.fotopic.net/c273096.html
	22nd May 2004	The Western Whistler II 40 145 Taking the tour from Crewe to Plymouth,with the tests of Dainton, Whiteball, Rattery, Hemerdon and if that was not enough Lickey Incline. The loco was as impressive as ever, what a performance Another Fantastic Day.
	28th Apr 2004	The Begining Is this how it all started???
	28th Apr 2004	Black & White Part 3 The third collection of Black and white. Again apologies about the quality and the lack of info.
	28th Apr 2004	Black & White Part 2 Another collection that were taken in Black and white. Again apologies about the quality and the lack of info.
	21st Mar 2004	Around the Country Part 2 A few more slides i've managed to dig out and get scanned
	24th Jan 2004	The East Lancs Envoy This time 40 145 takes a tour from Rawtenstall on the East Lancs. Railway to York and then York to Scarborough via Bridlington and back to York for the return to Rawtenstall. Another fantastic day.
	17th Jan 2004	East Lancs. EE Day 17 January 2004 saw the ELR host their English Electric Day.
	9th Jan 2004	Black & White This is a selection of photos that were taken in Black and white. Apologies about the quality but they were developed in the old school dark room, that’s when I wasn’t wagging it up the North Wales Coast. The Info is also very limited due to house moves etc.
	29th Nov 2003	The North Countryman Saturday 29th November 2003 saw 40 145 take its 5th outing on the mainline, Taking the tour from Crewe to Edinburgh up the East coast and returning Along the West Coast.
	3rd Oct 2003	Severn Valley Diesel Gala 3rd October was the first day of a three day gala on the SVR, The Class 40 preservation Societies 40135 & 40145 were visitors.
	6th Sep 2003	The Capital Whistler Saturday 6th September 2003 saw 40 145 with its fourth mainline tour. This time from Crewe to Kings Cross. This was 145’s first outing in its superb repaint into BR blue livery which was sponsored by Beaver Sports.
	12th Jul 2003	The Pennine Fellsman Saturday 12th July 2003. The Pennine Fellsman railtour from Birmingham International to Carlisle with D345 taking the train from Liverpool – Carlisle – Crewe.
	4th Jul 2003	English Electric Day 04/07/03 English Electric Day on the East Lancs.
	5th Apr 2003	The Whistling Tynesider Saturday 5th April 2003 saw D345 make its second mainline outing with The Whistling Tynesider railtour. Taking the train from Crewe on to Newcastle and back down to Crewe with an Ale stop in York.
	30th Nov 2002	The Christmas Cracker IV D345 is back on the mainline for its first time since preservation. The tour from Birmingham to Holyhead and return via Manchester.
	11th Jan 1986	On Tour Some shots from some of the railtours in the 80's
	11th Jan 1985	Around the Country
	10th Jan 1985	North Wales Shots from some of my Bashing days on the North Wales Coast

Welcome

This site is dedicated to Class 40’s. I became drawn to “bashing” these EE type 4’s in the late 70’s and early 80’s, mainly because of the massive size,the hellfire noise and the fantastic following the class had, and they all enjoyed a good riot. I had worked out if I set out to school at my normal time I could pick up 1M43 at Kings Norton to New St to pick up some electric to Crewe just in time for 1D11 for some quality 40 haulage up the coast. I would jump off some where along the coast to pick up another 40 on 1D31 behind us. Bale off at the Junction and get 1A56 back (another 40) to Crewe for an electric back to New St. Back in time for tea. Miss spent youth or what? With the return of D345/40145 back to the main line, I decided it was time to get some of the old slides out of the loft and get them scanned to get these pages up and running.

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