Class 40

Where you can drive it

With another DLC

Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.

• Airedale & Wharfedale Network: Leeds & Bradford - Skipton & Ilkley: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• Blackpool Branches: Preston - Blackpool & Ormskirk: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• Cathcart Circle Line: Glasgow - Newton & Neilston: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• East Coast Main Line: Peterborough - Doncaster: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• East Coastway: Brighton - Eastbourne & Seaford: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• Fife Circle Line: Edinburgh - Markinch via Dunfermline & Kirkcaldy: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• Glossop Line: Manchester - Hadfield & Glossop: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• Northern Trans-Pennine: Manchester - Leeds: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• Riviera Line: Exeter - Plymouth & Paignton: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• Southeastern Highspeed: London St Pancras – Ashford Intl & Faversham: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• WCML: Preston - Carlisle: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• West Coast Main Line: Crewe - Preston: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• West Cornwall Local: Penzance - St Austell & St Ives: with BR Heavy Freight Pack
• West Somerset Railway: with BR Heavy Freight Pack

In the game

Names in Dovetail's lists: Class 40, BR Class 40, Class 40 BLU.

In these DLCs: BR Heavy Freight Pack.

Official manual: BR Heavy Freight Pack.

The real thing

An English Electric diesel-electric locomotive, 200 of which were built between 1958 and 1962. It started on express passenger trains and moved to secondary passenger and freight work as newer engines arrived. Its turbochargers earned it the nickname "Whistlers".

• Built by: English Electric at Vulcan Foundry (180), Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns (20) (Wikipedia)
• Built: 1958–1962 (Wikipedia)
• Number built: 200 (Wikipedia)
• Operators: British Rail (Wikipedia)
• Top speed: 90 mph (145 km/h) (Wikipedia)
• Power: Engine: 2000 bhp (1,491 kW), At rail: 1550 hp (1,156 kW) (Wikipedia)
• Wheel arrangement: (1′Co)(Co1′) (Wikipedia)
• Power type: Diesel-electric (Wikipedia)
• Safety systems: AWS (Wikipedia)

Photo: Jim, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

From the English Wikipedia article British Rail Class 40 and Wikidata.