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English Electric.

            Inwardly sonant, I hear again the idiosyncratic diesel accoustics of the English Electric 1Co-Co1 Type 4 locomotive ...later known as Class 40.  The sound was a kind of bubbling whistle with an underlying vacuum-cleaner hum.  As this locomotive was overtaken by the 0642 Taunton-Manchester train, the sound must have swelled and then, as I raised my camera to take the photo, begun to die away.
The train describer screens fitted to later Class 40s, whether one-piece or divided, were a great mistake aesthetically.  The headcode discs fitted to the earlier examples were much more pleasing.  When they were a common sight I hardly noticed these locomotives or payed much attention to their appearance.  The "radiused" roof and droopy windscreen now seem to have an understated period gracefulness ...especially when compared to the angular, square-cornered lineaments of modern locos.
The photo was taken a little north of Stoke-on-Trent Station on Wednesday 11th June 1975.  The freight appears to be china clay for the Staffordshire pottery industry.
   

Taken on: March 9, 2011

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