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English Electric Type 4 - Class 40 Locomotives
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40001 heads through Wibdenshaw with a northbound freightliner train (Lima).
English Electric type 4 from Shenston Road - 228 Samaria (Bachmann) at the head of a coke train.
English Electric type 4 class 40 D229 at the head of a lengthy northbound freight (double motored Lima).
Green liveried D236 is seen at Hornsey Broadway hauling empty hopper wagons.
Ian Manderson's 40061 at Easington Lane (Lima).
The Bradford Forster Square to Manchester Red Bank parcels at Wibdenshaw behind 40128 (Lima).
40 129 is based on the Lima product. After some adjustments to the pony-wheel set-ups this
loco (and stablemate 40 118) gave stirling service during the Alexandra Palace appearance of Wibdenshaw.
Re-inspired by this improved road-holding, plans to add etched fan grills to these two models are now
progressing, and work on a third example has resumed.
From the Eastwell fleet is Bachmann Class 40 number 332.
Another 332, this time a double motored Lima model at Hornsey Broadway.
Another cement train formed of Presflo wagons with 40136 in charge. This is a double motored Lima model,
utilising Hornby Railroad motor bogies.
English Electric type 4 number D337 (Bachmann) approaches Wibdenshaw with a Bradford to
Manchester Red Bank parcels train.
Bachmann Class 40 number 342 from the Shenston Road fleet depicted fresh from Crewe works
hauling a a rake of empty 21 ton hopper wagons.
40146 at Pudsey Junction stabling point, Wibdenshaw (Lima).
Bachmann model of EE type 4 number 352 at the head of a tank train at Hornsey Broadway.
English Electric type 4 number 352 with a rake of Covhops heading south at Shenston Road,
passing sister loco 342 in the loop with a rake of 24.5 ton wagons.
Canada Road - 40 179 pictured in progress OMWB many months ago but now finally completed.
The Class 40 is modelled as it would have appeared after a run through the washer plant in
1975 when shedded at Healey Mills. Based on the old Lima ‘OO’ product, frost and fan grill
details have been added from the Extreme Etchings range. The conversion to EM has made use
of Ultrascale wheelsets, with several extra pick-ups added using 0,45 nickel silver wire (Lima).
A sight unlikely to be seen again at Hebble Vale Goods – heavy duty traction in the form of
a pair of Healey Mills stablemates! 40197 was a renumber/weather job of a Bachmann model for
a fellow member of the CFPS (40195 being my own upgrade of a Lima bodyshell with one of the
original Bachmann mechanisms). It was quite a revelation to see the pair together as despite
all my work on the Lima one, the current Bachmann model really captures the ‘essence’ of the
class. One thing that stands out a mile on 40195 is the lack of recess on the radiator grille.
