Wigan Album

The first of the ten English Electric Type 4 prototypes, D200, was accepted into BR stock in March 1958. After acceptance trials and various crew-training work, Its first well-documented demonstration run was on 18th April 1958, from London Liverpool Street to Norwich. A total of 200 of these machines were built. This loco was renumbered 40 122 in the 1970s but was repainted back into green livery with its original number of D200 in 1980. It is now preserved in the national railway museum at York. Grrrr !

do my eye's decieve me ? i think not D200 when i say class40's are mega beast apart from 40194 D200 is one hell of a beast . had this loco so many times over the s/c it's giving me palpitations just thinking of it GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR BEAST OF ALL BEAST infact they should renumber all class 40's to 666 grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the big green beast from hell

I used to hate these things when they came in instead of steam
But having seen them around and compared to what we have now, i have to agree they are great big wonderful beasts

This engine is on the through road I mention in the next picture.