WEST COUNTRY ‘WHISTLERS’
THE Class 40 fleet is perhaps most associated with British Rail’s London Midland Region, but the locos were also common on passenger and freight duties across much of the Eastern Region, Scotland, East Anglia, trans-Pennine routes, North Wales and parts of South Wales.
West of Bristol to Devon and Cornwall, however, was a different story. ‘Whistlers’ were sometimes allocated to freights through to Tiverton Junction and Exeter Riverside Yard from the likes of Gloucester and West Midlands – but last October’s railtour from Preston to Plymouth, powered by Nos. 40013+40145 (as D213+D345), was only
