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Class 40 'Whistler' 40013 'Andania' seen at Chester working 1M71 - the 07.55 York-Holyhead service:) ***NOW LIVE ON SOUNDCLOUD*** 😎:)
Enjoying the Class 40 Indian Summer, In the middle of August 1984, during the 'Indian summer' of the Class 40s, I took the opportunity for an endurance test of four overnights with little or no sleep - spent on trains, or trying to doss down in Preston station's waiting room!, , After enjoying the delights of three Class 40s on the Saturday (11th Aug) - 40150 from Preston to Ulverston, 40099 from Carlisle to Leeds via the S&C, and 40091 on the Skeg from Retford to Man Picc - the morning of Sunday 12th Aug brought another of the Class into sight, with ex-LMR namer 40013 'Andania' being rostered to work 1M71 - the 07.55 York-Holyhead which had the added delights of being diverted via a run-round at Wigan NW due to engineering :), , I captured the loco here again at Chester - after alighting!!! A big mistake in retrospect :( , Despite the front coach being a BG for parcels, there is no shortage of enthusiastic bashers who have invaded the coach :), Note the demolition job being carried out over on the island platform!, , Now LIVE on Sound & Vision on SoundCloud - more memories from a mis-spent youth 😎, During the 1980s, whilst travelling around the British Rail network, I made a number of tape recordings to capture the railway scene of the time, many from the front window, some from the platform, using my trusty ghetto-blaster - and now these recordings can finally be heard :), , And this working features - visit the track here: soundcloud.com/sound-vision-10193594/the-class-40-indian-..., , 'A day in the life' - log book update: , Sunday 12th August 1984 - 40013 on 1M71 07.55 York - Holyhead, , MANCHESTER VICTORIA, Deal St. Jnct., Eccles, Patricroft, Parkside Jnct., Lowton Jnct., Golbourne Jnct., WIGAN North Western (Run-round), WARRINGTON Bank Quay, Runcorn East, Frodsham, Helsby, CHESTER, , 51 miles, , No more 40s were enjoyed that day, so it seems crazy now that I got off the train at Chester - I believe not wanting to get 'stranded' at Holyhead for hours on a Sunday - or it may have been lack of validity?, 40013 worked back on 1E22 Holyhead-York., , Between 1982 and 1984 I spent many happy hours with my friends chasing around the North of England after the remaining Class 40s. At the beginning of 1984, there were still 50 members of the fleet in service, but this had already reduced down to 31 by the time I had 40013 in mid-August. By the end of the summer timetable, just 25 remained in service, and only 17 of the class survived into 1985, all but 3 being withdrawn over the weekend of 21st/22nd Jan 1985., , D200/40122, 40118 and 40012 were kept on just for rail tours, although D200 had a second Indian summer :), , Locomotive History, D213 / 40013 'Andania' was built by the English Electric Company at their Vulcan Foundry Works, Newton-Le-Willows, Lancashire and entered service as D213 on the 6th June 1959, allocated initially to Willesden MPD before almost immediately being transferred to Carlisle Upperby. Future transfers would see D213 allocated to Camden (August 1960), Crewe North (November 1961), London Midland Western Lines (April 1966), Longsight (June 1968, August 1973, May 1984), Springs Branch (June 1972, October 1980), Kingmoor (May 1973) and Crewe (October 1982). , , In May 1962, D213 was named 'Andania', the nameplates being fitted at Crewe works during a classified repair. In July 1971 it was outshopped from Crewe works after a classified repair which included fitting train air brakes and a repaint into corporate blue livery. 40013 was one of the last ten class 40’s to receive a works classified repair and was released from Crewe works in October 1980. In September 1982 it was suffering from bogie faults, however it escaped withdrawal and was sent to Stratford for a complete bogie swap and was back in traffic by the 28th September 1982. The locomotive survived almost until the end, being withdrawn on 18th October 1984. However, due to a shortage of motive power, it was reinstated to traffic twelve days later on the 30th October, and survived until 11th January 1985, when it was officially withdrawn again from traffic with power unit faults. , , Shortly after withdrawal, 40013 moved from Crewe to Bescot to replace 40063 as an exhibition locomotive. 40013 appeared at exhibitions at Redditch, Shrewsbury, Blackburn, Southport and Leamington Spa during 1985, Kidderminster, Stourbridge Junction, Worcester, Aberystwyth, Rugby and Wrexham during 1986, Shrewsbury and Basingstoke during 1987. , , On the 3rd February 1988, the loco was dragged from Tyseley to Crewe by 47497 to become a donor locomotive for 40122. The wheelsets where exchanged between the locomotives and 40013, now with scrap wheelsets, was towed to Vic Berry's scrapyard, Leicester, on the 10/11th May 1988. Fortunately, this was not the end for 40013, as it was sold into preservation, moving first to Meadowhall in 1989, the Midland Railway Centre in 1999, and to Barrow Hill in 2003 where it remained for may years. The loco has now been approved for mainline working again - see my video in Comments section below :), Above info courtesy of John Woolley Photos :), , The Named Class 40s, Locomotives in the range D210–D235 were to be named after ships operated by the companies Cunard Line, Elder Dempster Lines, and Canadian Pacific steamships, as they hauled express trains to Liverpool, the home port of these companies. The only locomotive not to carry a name was D226 which was to carry the name 'Media' but never did so. From approximately 1970, with Class 40s no longer working these trains, the nameplates were gradually removed, so that by 1973 contributors to Railway World were reporting 7 different locomotives running without nameplates, all observed in North Wales. However the Ian Allan Motive Power Combined Volume (a list of all operational locomotives published annually for enthusiasts) was still listing the names of all officially named Class 40 locomotives in 1980 despite none having carried their nameplates for many years. , , Preserved Class 40s, Of the seven class 40's to be preserved, all except for 40118 have run in preservation and three have run on the main line in preservation, these being D200 (40122), D213 (40013) and D345 (40145). As of 2018 D213 & D345 are operational on the main line., , One of them, No. 40013 Andania was rescued from Vic Berry's Scrapyard in 1987. More on the Class 40s here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_40, , My interest in the railways waned permanently with the demise of the Class 50s, initially from the Paddington-Oxford route in 1990, and finally when they retired from the Waterloo-Exeter services in 1992., , As well as enjoying the thrash, I managed to record many of the trips and railway scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share. ;), , Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration, , You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/, , 'Indian Summer' - a period of happiness or success occurring late in life...English Electric Type 4 1958-1984
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