We are pleased to expand our range of Graham Farish models with this workhorse Class 40 with Split Headcode Boxes No. D338 BR Green livery with small yellow panels. Featuring interior cab lighting and directional lighting, the model is also equipped with a Next18 DCC decoder socket and is pre-fitted with a speaker for those wishing to add DCC Sound.

MODEL FEATURES:

• Graham Farish N Scale
• Era 5
• Pristine BR Green Livery
• Split Headcode Boxes
• Next18 DCC Decoder Socket
• Recommended for use with Decoder 36-567
• Speaker Fitted
• NEM Coupling Pockets
• Interior Cab Lighting
• Directional Lighting
• Accessory Pack
• Length 153mm (over couplings)

History

The British Rail Class 40 is a British Railways diesel-electric locomotive, rated at 2,000 hp and classified as a Type 4. A total of 200 were built by English Electric between 1958 and 1962 and numbered in the series D200-D399. They were for a time the pride of the British Rail early diesel fleet. Despite their initial success, by the time the last examples were entering service they were already being replaced on some top-link duties by more powerful locomotives. As they were slowly relegated from express passenger uses, the type found work on secondary passenger and freight services where they worked for many years. The final locomotives ended regular service in 1985.

Class 40s operated in all areas of British Railways although Western and Southern Region workings were less common. After the early trials, the majority of Class 40s were based at depots in northern England; notably Longsight, Carlisle Kingmoor, and Wigan Springs Branch on the Midland Region, and Thornaby and Gateshead on the Eastern Region.

The heyday of the Class was in the early 1960s when they hauled top-link expresses on the West Coast Main Line and in East Anglia. However, the arrival of more powerful diesel locomotives, such as Class 47s and Class 55s, together with the electrification of the West Coast Main Line, meant...