End of the line for Class 40 40174 - my last 'Whistler' for sight! 😎
<b>Sat. 28th Jul 1984 Doncaster Works open day</b> 
<b>40174</b> - was the very last Class 40 that I still needed for sight in 1984, seen here awaiting the cutter's torch on a visit to Doncaster Works open day - at this stage, the loco still looks to be complete as it was when it arrived. The locomotive is sandwiched between fellow Whistler 40158 and pilot Class 20 20050 a.k.a D8000 - thanks to <a href="/photos/35138806@N08/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">40019 Caronia</a>  for the gen :)

<b>Locomotive History D374 / 40174</b>
In 1955 British Railways ordered ten type 4 locomotives from English Electric as part of the prototype diesel locomotive evaluation program. Three years later in March 1958, the first locomotive D200 emerged from the English Electric Vulcan Foundry works at Newton-Le-Willows and by September all ten had been delivered. D200 – D206 were allocated to Stratford MPD and employed on Great Eastern duties between London Liverpool Street to Cambridge, Ipswich and Norwich. With the introduction of the class 47’s on Great Eastern duties, the class 40’s soon found themselves delegated to secondary passenger duties and eventually settled down to a mix of secondary passenger trains, summer holiday trains, parcel traffic and heavy freight trains. 

The reason 40174 was withdrawn is due to catastrophic engine failure. It was working an oil train over the pennines and was under full power when the engine suddenly stopped. When she was dragged to Longsight for attention it was found that one of cylinder liners was smashed to pieces and the engine block was severely damaged. 174s engine had &quot;thrown a leg out of bed&quot; [Info courtesy of 'Super Wrist'
Cut up at BREL Doncaster works by 11/84

Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. <b>Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration</b>

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