Class 47 photo: 47001 on a northbound inter-regional near the top of Parkstone bank. Class 47 photo: 47001 47001 (left) with 47483 standing outside Bristol Bath Road. Class 47 photo: 47001 at Crewe Works Class 47 photo: 47001 pictured at Haymarket MPD Class 47 photo: 47001 THE MID SCOT EXPLORER WHICH STARTED FROM BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET IN THE SUMMER OF 1982 INCLUDED VISITS TO THE DEPOTS AT INVERNESS, HAYMARKET AND EASTFIELD.
THE WEATHER ON THE SATURDAY WAS TYPICALLY SCOTTISH AND ONLY ON THE RETURN TRIP THE FOLLOWING DAY D Class 47 photo: 47001 AT CREWE GRESTY LANE Class 47 photo: 47001 THE DRIVER HAS THE RIGHT-AWAY AND CHECKS BACK ALONG HIS TRAIN BEFORE EASING OFF. AT MANCHESTER VICTORIA Class 47 photo: 47001 AT MARGAM Class 47 photo: 47001 AT CREWE WORKS Class 47 photo: 47001 47001 @ EASTLEIGH STATION 1986. AT EASTLEIGH Class 47 photo: 47001 AT INVERNESS Class 47 photo: 47001 AT CREWE WORKS Class 47 photo: 47001 AT DONCASTER Class 47 photo: 47001 AT CREWE WORKS Class 47 photo: 47001 AT SALTLEY Class 47 photo: 47002 AT LEEDS Class 47 photo: 47002 WITH THE 15.00 KX - NEWCASTLE SERVICE AT PETERBOROUGH Class 47 photo: 47002 AT MACCLESFIELD Class 47 photo: 47002 AT YORK DEPOT SIDINGS Class 47 photo: 47002 47002 "SEA EAGLE" IN COMPANY WITH 47325 AND 47145. AT TINSLEY Class 47 photo: 47002 TINSLEY SHED AT TINSLEY Class 47 photo: 47002 "I DONT CARE WHAT YOU SAY - IT'S BROKE ". GENERAL TONE OF THE CONVERSATION AFTER ARRIVAL AT PAIGNTON WITH A BURTON RAILWAY SOCIETY CHARTER . THE LOCO WAS FAILED THERE AFTER A VALIANT PERFOMANCE FROM THE MIDLANDS. AT PAIGNTON Class 47 photo: 47002 AT HULL BOTANIC GARDENS Class 47 photo: 47002 at Berwick on the 116 Edinburgh Waverley - Newcastle Class 47 photo: 47002 'SEA EAGLE' Tinsley painted nameplate Class 47 photo: 47002 'SEA EAGLE' at Holbeck TMD 3 months prior to withdrawal Class 47 photo: 47002 'SEA EAGLE' pictured at Thornaby MPD Class 47 photo: 47002 & 40013 at Warrington Bank Quay Class 47 photo: 47002 preparing to propel it's train back into Poole Up sidings Class 47 photo: 47002 pictured at Billingham Class 47 photo: 47002 'SEA EAGLE' at Bramley (Hants) with a freightliner for Millbrook Class 47 photo: 47002 'SEA EAGLE' approaching Basingstoke with a freightliner for Millbrook Class 47 photo: 47002 in Didcot yard with a freightliner Class 47 photo: 47002 pictured at Crewe Class 47 photo: 47002 pictured at Finedon with a freight. Class 47 photo: 47002 at Picton with a Tees yard - Willesden Speedlink Class 47 photo: 47002 47002 at Edunburgh Waverley Class 47 photo: 47002 pictured in Bevois Park on the Up side at Northam Class 47 photo: 47002 AT HARTLEPOOL SP Class 47 photo: 47002 47002 "SEA EAGLE" SPENDS THE WEEKEND AT HULL BOTANIC GARDENS. THIS WAS THE LAST OF HULL'S FOUR MAJOR DEPOTS, WHICH AT ONE TIME USED TO HAVE A COMBINED ALLOCATION OF OVER 400 LOCOMOTIVES. BY THIS DATE 08499 AND 08348 (SEEN BEHIND) WERE THE ONLY ONES ACTUAL Class 47 photo: 47003 'WILD SWAN' pictured at Reading Class 47 photo: 47003 'WILD SWAN' at Tinsley Class 47 photo: 47003 at Heaton Norris Class 47 photo: 47003 pictured at Millerhill MPD Class 47 photo: 47003 'WILD SWAN' at Tinsley Class 47 photo: 47003 BRISTOL BATH ROAD TMD AT BRISTOL BATH ROAD Class 47 photo: 47003 WILD SWAN AT DONCASTER Class 47 photo: 47003 47003 AT LIVERPOOL STREET WITH AN EXPRESS FOR NORWICH IN THE SUMMER OF 1981
THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS TO SAVOUR IN THIS PHOTO, CATENARY BUILT FOR 1500V DC USE, COACH WINDOWS THAT OPEN, BRUTE TROLLEYS, A 'PROPER' REAR LAMP AND OF COURSE A CLEAN SF 47 WIT Class 47 photo: 47003 taking the Oxford line at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47003 pictured at Ely with the 08.35 Liverpool St - Norwich Class 47 photo: 47003 at Buxworth. Tunstead - Northwich. Class 47 photo: 47003 pictured at Cambridge Class 47 photo: 47003 at Oxford Class 47 photo: 47003 t Montrose with stock for 2A76 18:38 Montrose-Aberdeen Class 47 photo: 47003 47003 arriving at Truro with the an ex-Plymouth service Class 47 photo: 47004 with 47121 at 47484 at Old Oak Common open day Class 47 photo: 47004 at Stratford Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' piloting 47806 at Didcot. Class 47 photo: 47004 47004 pictured at the old Oxford depot in the late 1980's. Class 47 photo: 47004 inside the factory at OC alongside D1015. Class 47 photo: 47004 at Didcot with 47306. Both of these 47's are now in the WMOC EWS heritage pool, and both up for sale. Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Embsay Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Embsay Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Embsay Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Embsay Class 47 photo: 47004 at Challow with an engineers train Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 D1524 pictured by the Old Oak turntable. Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' at Culham Class 47 photo: 47004 At Crewe Works for an unclassified repair/rectification. Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' and D7018 pictured at Ropley Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' and 47095 pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' and 37248, 37798, 47016 pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSMD' at Oxford Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Old Oak Common Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' pictured at Culham Class 47 photo: 47004 about to depart from Bolton Abbey-Embsay on the 1710 service Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common' pictured at Hullavington Class 47 photo: 47004 at Basingstoke working 2O03 17:22 Exeter St. Davids-Waterloo. Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Doncaster Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Norwich in the days of real signals Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' pictured at Ropley Class 47 photo: 47004 at Eastfield TMD. Class 47 photo: 47004 Now with a standard blue roof, allocated north of the border and fitted with miniature snow-ploughs, in common with many Scottish based loco's, Many years were still to pass before this 47 became a 'celebrity' machine. Class 47 photo: 47004 47004 at Old Oak Common. Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' with a binliner at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 47004 Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot in 'Heritage' original two-tone green livery, with headcode panel reinstated and also carrying original number D1524. Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 47004 Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot, probably the best retro two-tone green repaint of them all, coupled to D5217 at Alresford on the Watercress Line. Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Westerleigh refuse transfer terminal Class 47 photo: 47004 Another view of 47004, this time from the No.2 end at Liverpool Street. Class 47 photo: 47004 A perfect illustration of the distinctive Stratford grey roof. 47004 viewed at the No.1 end at Ipswich. Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common T&RSD' pictured at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Westerleigh refuse transfer terminal Class 47 photo: 47004 47004 at Ipswich. Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' at Didcot Class 47 photo: 47004 at Bolton Abbey. The yellow panel at the No.1 end had been turned round earlier in the day revealing a black panel. Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Toton MPD Open Day Class 47 photo: 47004 at Bolton Abbey Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' at Old Oak Common Class 47 photo: 47004 at Embsay Class 47 photo: 47004 stabled at Reading Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' pictured at Didcot Parkway Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Eastfield MPD Class 47 photo: 47004 at Embsay Class 47 photo: 47004 pictured at Millerhill MPD Class 47 photo: 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' at Old Oak Common Class 47 photo: 47004 at Bolton Abbey, with a black panel at the No.1 end - was yellow the previous day! Class 47 photo: 47004 AS D1524 AT TOTON Class 47 photo: 47004 AT BOLTON ABBEY Class 47 photo: 47004 AT BOLTON ABBEY Class 47 photo: 47004 AT HOLYWELL HALT Class 47 photo: 47004 AT EMBSAY Class 47 photo: 47004 AT EMBSAY Class 47 photo: 47004 AT EMBSAY Class 47 photo: 47004 AT STRATFORD Class 47 photo: 47004 AT DIDCOT Class 47 photo: 47004 AT BOLTON ABBEY Class 47 photo: 47004 AT BOLTON ABBEY Class 47 photo: 47004 47004 IN EX-WORKS CONDITION ON A FOGGY DAY AT EASTFIELD. AT EASTFIELD Class 47 photo: 47004 TOTON OPEN DAY 1998 AT TOTON Class 47 photo: 4700 |