Feeling nostalgic watching this ❤️, Classic Class 40 diesel locomotion,Bring back those days when seeing and hearing these classic locomotives to other Class locos like the 26,27 ,31,33,37,47 ,50,52 ,55 and not ever forgetting the sounds of a class 40 ,love the sounds of fans looking out the windows ,Great nostalgic memories of growing up with these sort of things ,Since Privatisation to today's Generation of trains,Nothing like BR memories growing up.Miss the Whistlers when they were retired in the early 1980s 🥺😢😭makes me greet thinking about how BR Jobsworths were making decisions retiring these iconic workhorses to history and BR changing every day when blue was ruling the rails ,I would have been 10 when this was filmed,Now at 49 Feeling emotional.😭
As the song says "those were the days my friend I thought they'd never end" we all took it for granted, mk1s, loco hauled trains, relief trains at bank holidays instead of cancellations or bus replacement, vacuum braked overnight trains, adex, mystery excursions, I could go on, but they did end. I did 40181 Manchester to Sheffield on that day which was 40 years ago this Summer, 2024. Thanks for posting, brings back happy memories.
@@aureol40012 You’re very welcome, i was born and bred in Sheffield in 1963 so I oh so remember the Man - Skeg very much so in the late 70’s to early 80’s when I was a young adolescent. I rode it many a time. Unfortunately I missed the last run, which must have been amazing. Thank you for the, never to be repeated, awesome memories.
@@christopherattwood48 it’s my dad really who should be thanked. He bought the kit and did most of the filming, including this. I took over filming in 1985 until the kit died a death in 1988. Hardly surprising it only lasted 5 years, it was used intensively!
@@aureol40012 Very Nice, I’m kinda jealous, I only did it once from Sheffield to Skegness and return in about 1979/80 but I cannot recall which 40 it was. I did do the Jolly fisherman Pathfinder Railtours recently ish from Derby (where I’ve lived now since 1992) to Skegness and return behind 20 107 / 20 096 on 27/05/2019. That was a very nostalgic journey too and brought back many memories.
That engine (well supercharger) whistling brings back some very early childhood memories for me. Couldn’t even put words to it, more like instantly refreshed a memory of long ago 👍🏻
Holy sh#t that footage from Belle Vue station is amazing! I’m 52 now and I was on this train and was just a teenager. I may well have been hanging out of the window. Thank you for posting this.
When railway was run as a service for passengers and not used as a political football. And Piccadilly is an airport terminal now, the approach has been rationalised now too.
You know, as much as I think 40145 at the ELR is good and all that - I would swap it for this monster any day of the week. 40181 was an absolute hero and missed by so many.
My grandfather retired around the year of 1960 when steam trains started getting scrapped and my great grandfather also had the same job, my grandfather worked for British railway in Carlisle driving the trains and being the fireman he loved his job and would also work in the long forgotten Carlisle upperby 12B carriage sheds, he would also get dropped off on the maryport line by Carlisle racecourse by a train bridge in the farmers fields as there was an access gate to the track and it was only down the roads from my nan and granddads house when my mom was a teen, he made me love trains and I love vintage even more, favourite train out of them all is the flying scotsman and out of the freight loco's is the class 40 diesel loco, I wanted to have the same job as them both but i developed epilepsy back in November of 2017 just 1 year before I could drive, but if I ever lose my epilepsy or have to have brain surgery to remove the part that's causing it, I will hopefully be able to get this job, but as of right now any job in a train station would be perfect for me.
I do miss these double enders! Nice to see lots of Flailing going on! They have kept a good many 37s as they know nothing can out pull them! Sadly all the Whistlers are gone 😢 These beautiful machines built with pride in the UK not shipped in from some foreign country when we used to HAVE heavy industry! Thats all gone and its a nation of offices and coffee shops! We import almost EVERYTHING evn crappy locos like the 66😡 WHY are people taking pix of the cleaning ladies at 5:25 🤷🏼♂️😂😂😂😂
Too strong a word but I remember the times people used to say diesels were soul-less, yet you could sense there would be a time even the diesels would be venerated. I even miss the HST sets now and many AC locos too.
BR was looking a bit tatty all round by the mid 80's and this class 40 was no exception. They could have given it a bit of a clean before this trip! And the Mk1 coaches were equally well weathered, too. Still, although the 80's railscene looked sad by comparison with the 50's, the worst was yet to come and now the UK system is nowhere as varied and interesting anymore, though somewhat cleaner.
I remember a class 40 was on the fly ash train in Peterborough 40 141 that was a bit of a surprise it's normally a class 47 plus I've even seen a class 25 on the fly ash the class 47 had failed
It Was A Sad Day When The Class 40,s Were Withdrawn From British Rail Service It Was A Shame That More Of These Fine Machines Were Not Preserved I Miss The Noise Of These Fine Machines
If anyone has any footage of 40177 on the return Devonian railtour c1984 I’d pay to see it. The driver was trying to destroy the engine between Crewe and Preston. Nearly derailed it near Miles Platting we came out of our seats!
We use to work 01.15 newspaper train from Manchester to Cleethorpes in the early 80s with one of these, You needed to stuff paper round the side windows to keep drafts out good times.
Jake I'm so grateful that your Dad took this, was it him that was videoing on your other video from a car as she was heading into Skegness ? I'm sure I remember that as I was in the window on the left hand side of the first coach only 13 at the time. But I vividly remember a car was recording us and we were going mental. Happy days. Thanks for bringing the day back to life.
Hi mate, thanks for your kind words, it means a lot to me. No, it wasn’t us who shot that, but it was a good friend of mine who has let me upload his video to my page. Search for “boiler suit man”.
I read that Class 40s were supposed to have been banned from the holiday trains in 1983 due to holidaymakers being outnumbered by enthusiasts... I notice Sulzer engine locos and electrics didn't attract bashers like the English Electric classes... I've only seen one Class 40 actually working and that was D200 on its farewell run to York.
It must have been 99 per cent basher/enthusiast/crank call it what you will - great days, but this was also tinged with quite a bit of sadness as we all knew the there wouldn’t be any 40s around the next summer!
I remember when they brought a couple of these out of retirement when they were remodelling Crewe Station in the 80`s. I think they gave them the departmental number of Class 97, they were based at Garston Depot.
@@aureol40012 Nice one mate. I have got some photos my mate took, a couple of them are of me on the footplate on Garston holding sidings, 97406 seems to ring a bell. I will check those other vids out mate, cheers.
Still better than cars or planes. Greta is a big fan of trains, although electric ones are preferred of course, due to their environmental friendliness.
What do you mean, I was 13 at the time and even I had heard of it being the last run so I travelled there and back, Amazing day but so sad. And yes hanging out the windows was great fun if you could find a window that was as there was so many bashers it was very difficult to get a spare window, so there was no chance of kids falling out as we were two even three to a window we basically squashed like sardines.
