Class 40 thrash: 40044 departs Stockport for Buxton - 1/12/84 www.linesidevideos.co.uk 

1984 ? Holy crap I would sell my soul to be back in 1984.

What a great loco. Withdrawn just four weeks later. Criminal.

Unofficially named Burton Albion on the nose,saw this at Buxton,can't believe it's over 30 years ago.

A little taste of lovely old England!

Rather a lot of people on that boggo at 1:20 taking pictures!

brings back great memories of the heydays of real locomotives

Did it have different 1 and 2 end noses?

you can see the third or fourth traction motor over heat and give some smoke once in a while in first and secbd field divert! Quite a climb up tae Buxton !

What a dark gloomy place Derbyshire is and I remember growing up there with the dismal climate

What a great video brought back a ton of memories. Thank you so much. 44 was always one my favourites along with 28 - not the prettiest 40 following its accident at Chinley in the 70's and having the 2 different front ends - but she was a stormer and never let you down - R.I.P.

Great thrash from the old beast, had her many times. Must be a Haymarket man or a longsight man up front. The Scots loved their proper loco's.

My favourite 40. Had her on a railtour and merrymaker. Thanks for sharing this

Eight years after this first appeared I still come back and watch occasionally because it's out-flippin-rageous.

Thank you for sharing. Brilliant footage that brings back so many memories, I'm now 59 and still miss those days.

My lords

The Fart Cart outside Stockport station was obviously held back to follow this charter train but yep loads of railfans on board. Looking at the Derbyshire countryside reminds me how dank an miserable it is up there in winter

Absolutely fantastic

We called DMUs Fart Carts then! With Class 40s hauling some passenger trains I'm speechless!

Fantastic footage. What happened to those days? Took me right back....

a long time ago

Spot the silver ford Capri

Makes me wonder why they didn't just store the whole class when it came to the 40 because there's still a massive need for them now

Simply wonderful.

Top class recording that

I was on that tour, great to see!

brilliant and fantastic

Bloody love Tats !!! Hearing that fan roar and those 16 cylinders pound, Awesome !!!!! Glad I worked of these beasts back in the 80's 👌

Class 40 departs Thrash-port! 🚂👍

Shame you cut out the bit through hazel grove!

One of my favourites

Spot the allotment at 11:36

I was on this tour, great memories!

Great engines.

Beast!

Great video gosh that take me back. The turbos, the whine of the generators, the heat, the smell of diesel......an awesome combination, sadly missing nowadays. Wished id saved the videos i made on the North Wales Coast in the early 80s. I can remember coming home and being black from 'Thrash'. So I did something id always wanted to do a few years back with the help of the CFPS and spent a day driving 40135 on East Lancs with Chris Guntrip. What an awesome day. If you get chance id recommend it to any fans of English Electric loco's!!

Excellent footage 👍🏻

Were right hot too thoses mk1 compos with steam.

Happy days great memories 😊

Best 40 thrash videoever (a massive thanks)? Cleared 44 for a thou, not my machine, but nevertheless, a nice loco

BEST video on youtube

I remember the name Burton Albion at Crewe Works.Was it involved in a collision some where in around Buxton area? I have been there since 1976!

Nice

I heard the entire class of 142,s was built with the steel from one 40 bogie?

Brilliant

Can someone explain why one minute it seems to be on full power and the next minute it seems to be almost idling.

Looks like its struggling to go any faster it looks like its only going 40 odd mile an hour why's that?

Earliest GoPro ever, or some guy with a steady hand standing on the end of this loco??