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This video was taken at Bury Bolton Street on the East Lancashire Railway's Anniversary Celebrations on Wednesday 25th July 2007. It was taken just after the naming ceremony of the Class 40 Preservation Society's veteran machine 40145 and shows the gathering of the clans with a number of people milling about in the.... more

This video was taken at Bury Bolton Street on the East Lancashire Railway's Anniversary Celebrations on Wednesday 25th July 2007. It was taken just after the naming ceremony of the Class 40 Preservation Society's veteran machine 40145 and shows a number of people milling about in the general excitement of the day..... more

Here we see the main line CFPS locomotive 40145 returning back to the Castlecroft sidings with two committee members on board - Dave Peacock (driver and CFPS engineer) and Mark Hornby (CFPS membership). Both Dave and Mark had spent the day hard at work on maintenance duties, no doubt 'tweaking' the loco for main line.... more

Here we see the Class 40 Preservation Society's (CFPS) flagship locomotive 40145 being started up by top driver Matt Jackson, who then climbs down from the engine and stands to one side admiring the glorious sight of this classic English Electric loco. Matt would soon take the locomotive further down the line,.... more

I made my way to Manchester Victoria on Friday 27th July 2007 to film the CFPS mainline loco 40145 on its way to Crewe. This was the day before the Special Steam & Diesel Hauled Train Excursion operated by John Fishwick and Sons in celebration of the centenary of their company. This was a special all first class.... more

Here we have a fourteen second shot of large logo Class 40 40145 running light engine seen here idling along the line at a leisurely pace just before Heywood railway station. This shot was taken from the side of the track, stood in a field used as a children's football pitch. The CFPS mainline locomotive was about.... more

This 20 second video shows CFPS machine 40145 whistling away in large logo just before it departs from Ramsbottom on its way to Bury Bolton Street on the East Lancashire Railway. A couple of hours before, 40145 emerged from Buckley Wells shed after a rapid repaint into large logo, followed by a groundbreaking.... more

This seventeen-second clip was taken at Bury Bolton Street on the East Lancashire Railway's Anniversary Celebrations on Wednesday 25th July 2007. The star of the show was 40145 having just emerged from Buckley Wells shed newly painted in Large Logo along with its new nameplate that can be seen in the background. The.... more

40 086 departs Huddersfield at 06.30am on the outward leg of the CFPS "North Briton" to Aberdeen

Here we have an ECS movement with Class 40 40145 returning stock from Leeds to Crewe the day after the excitement of the Pathfinder/CFPS 'Cambrian Coast Express' rail tour that ran from Leeds to Aberwystwyth. This is a desolate view of platform 3 on Manchester Victoria where I waited two or three hours for this.... more