Class 40 40099 seen at the head of 1E23 10.40 Carlisle to Leeds at Appleby-in-Westmorland

Class 40 Indian Summer
40099 pauses at Appleby station on 1E23 10.40 Carlisle - Leeds in the summer of 1984. Yours truly was on for the ride. Happy days on the Settle & Carlisle railway. As the last few passengers board the train, the driver looks anxious to hit the road! I am risking missing my ride to get a photo :) I took the opportunity to get a low angled shot of one of my favourite class - the 40s always looked fantastic from a low angle. I guess my vantage point would be frowned upon nowadays but things were a bit more easy going back in the day...:)

'A day in the life' - log book update:
Saturday 11th August 1984 - 40099 on 1E23 10.40 Carlisle - Leeds.

CARLISLE
Armathwaite
Lazonby
Langwathby
APPLEBY
Kirkby Stephen
Ais Gill Summit
Garsdale
Dent
Ribblehead
Horton-in-Ribblesdale
SETTLE
Hellifield
SKIPTON
Keighley
Shipley
LEEDS

113 miles

Followed by:
40091 on 1M54 13.24 Skegness - Man Picc

RETFORD (Low Level)
Whisker Hill Jnct
Worksop
Shireoaks
Kiveton Park
Darnall
SHEFFIELD
Dore
Hope
EDALE
New Mills Central
Romiley
Reddish North
Ashburys
MAN PICC

65 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 31 by the time I had 40099 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end of the summer timetable, just 25 remained in service, and only 17 of the class survived into 1985, all but 3 being withdrawn over the weekend of 21st/22nd Jan 1985.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 :)

Nearly all of the last Class 40s in service that year acquired some or other distinguishing marks, from hand-painted nameplates to original numbers. 40099 was no exception, having had her discs removed in 1980. The sharper-eyed amongst you will also notice one of the horn grilles is on sideways!

Locomotive History
D299 / 40099
D299 was built by the English Electric Company at their Vulcan Foundry Works, Newton-Le-Willows, Lancashire and entered traffic in Oct 1960.

24/10/60 - Date in traffic allocated to 5A (Crewe North)
01/11/60 - Transferred to 1B (Camden)
01/06/62 - Transferred to 5A (Crewe North)
01/09/62 - Transferred to 1B (Camden)
01/02/63 - Transferred to 5A (Crewe North)
01/11/64 - Transferred to 1A (Willesden)
01/12/65 - Transferred to 2F (Bescot)
01/04/66 - Transferred to WL (Western Lines D01, D02, D05)
01/06/68 - Transferred to D01 (London Western Division)
01/07/68 - Transferred to D05 (Stoke-on-Trent Division)
01/09/68 - Transferred to D10 (Preston Division)
26/05/72 - Painted into BR Blue
01/11/72 - Transferred to D08 (Liverpool Division)
01/05/73 - Transferred to SP (Wigan Springs Branch)
01/09/73 - Transferred to KM (Carlisle Kingmoor)
01/05/74 - Renumbered as 40099
01/01/75 - Transferred to KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)
01/05/75 - Transferred to LO (Longsight)
01/10/75 - Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
01/05/78 - Transferred to LO (Longsight)
01/07/80 - Discs and water tanks removed
22/10/84 - Withdrawn at KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)
25/01/85 - Towed to Doncaster Works for scrapping
Cut up at BREL Doncaster works by 08/05/85

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

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'Indian Summer' - a period of happiness or success occurring late in life...English Electric Type 4 1958-1984

Taken in: UK / England / Eden District / Appleby (show map)

Taken on: August 11, 1984

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