47 wasn't assisting through Chinley! 40s regularly took 11 plus over the Hope Valley and well within their capabilities as I have done in the past. Superb locos.
@@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf I grew up in Latchford in the '70s. My grandparent's house was 300 yards from Latchford signal box. The sound of an idling 40 is bliss to me. The fact remains that, when first introduced at least, they were found to be not quite up to the job of replacing the pacific expresses on the WCML and were often to be seen being rescued by a steam engine. That's why they only built 200 (the 10 pilot locos and 190 more before proper trials were carried out, found to be inadequate for the job they were designed for and quickly relegated to mostly freight by 1970) and ordered over 400 Brush type 4's to fill the gap. Beautiful, nostalgic but pretty bloody awful in reality just like most of the original first generation diesels. Still love 'em though!
Wicked shots! Class 40 sounding great!👌
Thank you very much David! :) The 40 certainly sounded brilliant!
Cameron
👍Whistle while you work - great to see a 40 back on the mainline!
Certainly is Dave! They're fantastic locos :)
Cameron
It was a very smooth ride,we loved it on Andania
Very great done video, sounds really good :)
Thank you Simon, she certainly did sound great! :)
Cameron
Another brilliant video! She sounds great!
Thank you very much Henry. he certainly does sound great, gotta love 40s! :)
Cameron
Fantastic thrash from D213, love the carriages too
❤nice 👍
Thank you very much! :)
Cameron
I'd like to see this without a 47 taking up the slack. It would struggle!
47 wasn't assisting through Chinley! 40s regularly took 11 plus over the Hope Valley and well within their capabilities as I have done in the past. Superb locos.
@@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf I grew up in Latchford in the '70s. My grandparent's house was 300 yards from Latchford signal box. The sound of an idling 40 is bliss to me. The fact remains that, when first introduced at least, they were found to be not quite up to the job of replacing the pacific expresses on the WCML and were often to be seen being rescued by a steam engine. That's why they only built 200 (the 10 pilot locos and 190 more before proper trials were carried out, found to be inadequate for the job they were designed for and quickly relegated to mostly freight by 1970) and ordered over 400 Brush type 4's to fill the gap. Beautiful, nostalgic but pretty bloody awful in reality just like most of the original first generation diesels. Still love 'em though!
The 47 didn't seem to be assisting on any of the vids of this tour - probably just there for reversing moves.
It was just providing train supply, it didn't seem to be assisting
@@AndreiTupolev Correct. There for shunting purposes, ets, and 'should' help be required, which on this occasion wasn't.