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'Atlantic Conveyor' at Peterborough NVR station on the 17th September 2005
British Railways gave English Electric an order under the Modernisation Plan of 1955 for ten 10 200 h.p locomotives. The first onewas delivered in 1958. 190 more were then ordered . These were all to be built at the the English Electric's Vulcan Foundry but because the Deltics were also being built at the same time 20 of the order were built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn at Darlington. D306 is one of these 20 engines.
The English Electric Type 4, as it was known, when built, is a 1Co-Co1 Diesel Electric. When the T.O.P.S computer system was introduced the The English Electric Type 4 became the class 40.
'Atlantic Conveyor' waits with a train to Wansford at the Peterborough NVR station
D 306 was to become 40 106 when the T.O.P.S computer system was introduced by BR. Even though all locomotives were to be painted in the then new BR blue at there first overhaul this locomotive D 306/40 106 kept its green colour, and so was used on rail tours in between its normal trains.
It was withdrawn in 1983 as it was vacuum braked only. It was purchased in 1984 by Mr G F Boden and was moved onto the Great Central Railway.
It was named on 11th August 1984 "Atlantic Conveyor" in remembrance of the Cunard container ship, that was sunk in Falklands Campaign.
In February 1990 D306 was moved from the GCR to the Nene Valley Railway. The engine was always in tip top order, and is always on hand to keep the NVR going.
This Locomotive is now not at the Nene Valley.(2019)
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