Classes 40 - 48
BROWN, Murray
Rail Portfolios - The 40s
Rail Portfolios 1
Fine all colour photographs of the Class 40s taken from introduction to the 1980s. Well presented in landscape format with detailed captions. In a series of seventeen modern traction volumes (see separate listings under 'Rail Portfolios').
BUCK, Martin
Class Forties in Action
Album of class 40 photographs, some in colour, taken from their introduction in 1958 to the early 1980s.
CHALCRAFT, John
The Peaks - British Rail Class 44, 45 & 46 Diesel Electrics
Named Diesel and Electric Locomotives of British Rail - Part 4
Photographs of each named locomotive in the class. One of a series of five albums produced in the early 1980s, covering Deltics, 87s, 50s, 40s and the Peaks (search using term 'named diesel' for other volumes).
Crompton Parkinson & Sulzer
Operating Manual British Railways Type 4 Diesel-Electric Locomotives D 11-137
Department of the Environment
Railway Accident - Report on the Collision that occurred on 6th October 1971 near Beattock in the Scottish Region of British Railways
Collison when an out of control freight train hauled by Class 47 D1836 ran into another freight hauled by D5100 and D8568 with the death of the guard of the leading train.
Department of the Environment
Railway Accident - Report on the Collision that occurred on 27th November 1971 at Sharnbrook in the London Midland Region of British Railways
Collison involving a freight train, hauled by Class 47 D1623, and an engineer's train of Class 25 D5250, both locomotives receiving serious cab end damage.
Department of the Environment
Railway Accident - Report on the Collision that occurred on 26th October 1975 at Lunan Bay, between Montrose and Arbroath in the Scottish Region British Railways
Collision of light locomotive 40111 with an Aberdeen to King's Cross passenger hauled by 47418. The Class 40 embedded itself underneath the body of the rear coach. Despite major damage and the start of Class 40 withdrawals, 40111 was repaired.