Talk:British Rail Class 40
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[edit] English Electric Type 4
I thought that the EE type 4 was the Class 50? This article says that the Class 40 was the EE Type 4. Can anyone clarify this? Emoscopes Talk 21:24, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
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- You need to have achieved grey hair to understand :-). Although Class 50 is indeed an E-E design, and is 'a' Type 4, they came much later than Class 40, which was always known as 'the' E-E Type 4, mainly to differentiate between it and the other Type 4's built by Brush/Sulzer etc. Class 40 was usually known to platform-enders as 'Big D' or sometimes 'Whistlers'; Class 50's were simply known as 'Fifties' or 'Hoovers' because of the whirring sound they used to make when ticking-over. ChrisRed 12:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
