Welcome to the Class Forty Preservation Society Webpage

Below is a list of books that have been published about Class 40 diesel locomotives. The list could be
especially useful for looking for books published about the class. Thanks go to CFPS member
Tony Flusk for scanning in and providing details of these publications. If anyone knows of other books featuring the
class then please email the website (see contacts page)

More books have now been added. Thanks to Dave Wood, Graeme Occleston, Pete Calderley, Steve Jones & Steve Willis for these.

Book	Author	Publisher	ISBN
25 years of the 40s	Steve Turner	Rail Photprints	0 906883 06 7
Modern Railway Pictorial Profile : 9 Class 40's	Colin J Marsden	Ian Allan	0264 3642
Profile of the 40s	JS Whiteley & GW Morrison	Oxford Publishing Co	86093 144 7
The Power of the 40s	JS Whiteley & GW Morrison	Oxford Publishing Co	0 7110 1120 6
In memory of the 40s	Steve Turner	Rail Photoprints	0 906883 09 1
Class 40s at work	John Vaughan	Ian Allan Limited	0 7110 1120 6
Rail portfolios 1: The 40s	Murray Brown	Jane's	0 7106 0305 3
The Heyday of the Class 40s	Gavin Morrison	Ian Allan Limited	0 7110 3058 8
Volume 4 Heritage traction in colour The Class 40s	David Hayward & Kevin Derrick	Nostalgia Road publications	1 903016 43 6
The last years of the class 40s	A.Wyn Hobson	Ian Allan	0 7110 1467 1
Named diesel and electric locomotives of British Rail - Part 5 The 40's	John Chalcraft	Rail Photoprints	0 906883 05 9
British railway diesels in colour In focus Class forties to Holyhead	Steve Morris	Cheona Publications	1 900298 30 9
Book of the Forties	Norman Preedy	Peter Watts	0 906025 43 5
40 Country	Stephen Chapman	York Railpress	0 946371 00 8
Diesels in depth - Class 40	David Clarke	Ian Allan	0 7110 3166 5
Forites in 1981	CFPS	CFPS	None
English Electric Class 40's	Martin Buck	Peter Watts	0 906025 55 9
British Rail Fleet survey 3 Production Diesel-Electrics Types 4 and 5	Brian Haresnape	Ian Allan	7110 1189 3
Tribute to the Forty's 1958 to 1986	Alan W.Dickens	Publisher Class 40 Appeal	None
Indian Summer of the 40s	Alan Whitaker	Publisher Autobus Review	0 907834 09 4
Class 40's in and around Manchester	John Chalcraft & Steve Turner	Rail Photoprints	0 906883 00 8
British Rail Class 40	Norman E Preedy	Peter Watts	0906025 01 X
Class 40 - The Great Survivors	Michael Oakley	The Diesel & Electric Group	None
BR Class 40 Diesels	Malcom Dyer	Bradford Barton	0 85153 430 9
Class 40s In Action		Peter Watts Publishing	0 906025 42 7
The Class 40s an appreciation	Tom Heavyside	Battenhall Books	0 9508577 1 8
	Tim Knight	CFPS
	Clive Jarrad	The Inter City Railway Society