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Grrrrrrrr!!!

i wont waste time on small talk because small talk wont cut it when it comes to this picture. "MICK LANGTON YOU'VE GONE AND DONE YOURSELF PROUD" Has class 40's go this loco is the original beast from hell and once more it's on the explosive's train from gathurst. my ticker is on over time just looking at it GGGGGGRRRRRRRR MULTI MEGABEAST GGGRRRRRRRRR WHAT A MONSTER OF A LOCO words fail me with this picture this is the best christmas present ever. stunning piccy long may 40194 live in my memory some day we will meet again gggggrrrrrrr and i mean gggggggrrrrrrrr. your the man mick MERRY CHRISTMAS

Great photo Mick. It would be great to see pics of the start of this working,Gathurst/Robrite I believe, if anyone has any? I've looked everywhere no joy! Anyone remember the viaduct across the River Douglas and canal that linked the works to the small goods yard at Gathurst? I think it was there to the late 70's

Stan, take a look at these pics on flickr of the viaduct your talking about taken in 1978.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72213853@N03/7880493186/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72213853@N03/7873352112/in/photostream/

This link will take you to a shot of 40 194 inside Springs Branch shedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_addison/4743003079/

I was a train spotter in the early 1970's! We knew these engines as 'Big D's' Similar on the eastern railways as 'Type 3's'. May sound daft, but what is the difference. I remember type 3's having a larger front? Am I right?
Cullie is right; being at the Deanery in its early days they shook the classrooms....Grrrrrr!!!!!

tony g is it not class 37's your thinking of? they themself were mini monsters. i too went to deanery school when the class 40's were not short of being withdrawn. it was the same then back in the day when a class 40 came past the world erupted happy days indeed ggggggrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I know cullie very very well. Infact we shared the same womb! What he don't know about trains ain't worth knowing. GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRR indeed