Resting on the blocks - Class 40 40057 at King's Cross after arrival on 1E40 19.20 Aberdeen-London which the loco worked from Newcastle

Class 40s on tour After thoroughly enjoying the delights of two named Class 40s on 'Christmas Cracker II (40035 'Apapa' & 40015 'Aquitania' I and my fellow bashing friends were delighted to find, on our arrival at Leeds, that another Class 40 was out & about, with 40057 having been allocated to 1E40 - the overnight 19.20 Aberdeen-London KX service :)

So we staggered from Leeds (where the tour had terminated) to York to pick up the 40 for a ride back home to London. And here is the scene, after arrival on P8 at King's Cross.

This is the second of three shots I took (one more to upload shortly), all bleary-eyed after many hours on the rails on a cold winter's morning. Unfortunately, the negs are a tad dusty and scratched, hence the 'noise' in the frame. C'est la vie!

'A day in the life' - log book update:
Sunday 19th December 1982 - 40057 on 1E40 19.20 Aberdeen - London KX.

YORK
Church Fenton
Micklefield
LEEDS
Wakefield Westgate
DONCASTER

Diverted via Lincoln due to Sunday engineering work on the ECML
Black Carr Jnct.
Gainsborough Lea Road
Saxilby
Lincoln Central
Sleaford North Jnct.
Sleaford South Jnct.
Spalding
Warrington Jnct.

PETERBOROUGH
Huntingdon
St. Neots
Sandy
Biggleswade
Hitchin
Stevenage

Diverted again via the Hertford Loop due to Sunday engineering work on the ECML
Langley Jnct. (Up)
Hertford North
Gordon Hill
Wood Green (Alexandra Palace)

Finsbury Park
LONDON (King's Cross)

224 miles

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 36 by the end of May. 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end of the summer timetable, just 25 remained in service, and only 17 of the class survived into 1985, all but 3 being withdrawn over the weekend of 21st/22nd Jan 1985.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 :)

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 using Ilford FP4 black & white film. Scanned from the original negative with quite a lot of digital restoration due to a somewhat compromised negative - badly marked and scratched!

You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/

Taken in: UK / England / Camden / King's Cross (show map)

Taken on: December 19, 1982

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